Execute
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
To complete, finish, or perfect; to make effectual or operative.* A deed is not complete, and has no operation or effect, until executed, that is, signed sealed and delivered by the party making it. See Execution. To carry into effect; to make effectual; as by complying with, or acting under a legal order or authority; to obey the writ or mandate of a court. See Execution. A statute is said to execute a use, where it transmutes the equitable interest of cestuy que use into a legal estate of the same nature, and makes him tenant of the land accordingly, in lieu of the feoffee to uses or trustee, whose estate, on the other hand, is at the same moment annihilated.
1 Steph. Com. 339.