Execution

In practice

The act or mode of putting the sentence of the law in force, or of carrying into effect the judgment or decree of a court.

3 Bl. Com. 412.

A judicial writ, (otherwise termed final process,) founded on a judgment obtained in a civil court, and issued in behalf of the party recovering such judgment, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction or full benefit of it. Called by Lord Coke "the life of the law," and "the fruit and life of every suit."

5 Co. 89, 91.

There are various kinds of this process, but the two most usual in practice are the fieri facias, and the capias ad satisfaciendum. See Fieri Facias, Capias ad satisfaciendum, Levari facias, Extendi facias, Elegit, Habere facias possessionem, De retorno habendo.