Definition of execution

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Execution (n.) The act of executing; a carrying into effect or to completion; performance; achievement; consummation; as, the execution of a plan, a work, etc..

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Satisfy :: Satisfy (a.) To answer or discharge, as a claim, debt, legal demand, or the like; to give compensation for; to pay off; to requite; as, to satisfy a claim or an execution..
Morbidezza :: Morbidezza (n.) A term used as a direction in execution, signifying, with extreme delicacy..
Auto-da-fe :: Auto-da-fe (n.) An execution of such sentence, by the civil power, esp. the burning of a heretic. It was usually held on Sunday, and was made a great public solemnity by impressive forms and ceremonies..
Dolcemente :: Dolcemente (adv.) Softly; sweetly; with soft, smooth, and delicate execution..
Execution :: Execution (n.) The carrying into effect the judgment given in a court of law.
Deforce :: Deforce (v.) To resist the execution of the law; to oppose by force, as an officer in the execution of his duty..
Commission :: Commission (n.) A company of persons joined in the performance of some duty or the execution of some trust; as, the interstate commerce commission..
Tormenter :: Tormenter (n.) An executioner.
Effect :: Effect (n.) Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May..
Administration :: Administration (n.) The management of an estate of a deceased person by an executor, the strictly corresponding term execution not being in use..
Seguestration :: Seguestration (n.) A kind of execution for a rent, as in the case of a beneficed clerk, of the profits of a benefice, till he shall have satisfied some debt established by decree; the gathering up of the fruits of a benefice during a vacancy, for the use of the next incumbent; the disposing of the goods, by the ordinary, of one who is dead, whose estate no man will meddle with..
Blank :: Blank (n.) A paper containing the substance of a legal instrument, as a deed, release, writ, or execution, with spaces left to be filled with names, date, descriptions, etc..
Stave :: Stave (n.) To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project..
Hangman :: Hangman (n.) One who hangs another; esp., one who makes a business of hanging; a public executioner; -- sometimes used as a term of reproach, without reference to office..
Poundage :: Poundage (n.) The sum allowed to a sheriff or other officer upon the amount realized by an execution; -- estimated in England, and formerly in the United States, at so much of the pound..
Malexecution :: Malexecution (n.) Bad execution.
Executor :: Executor (n.) An executioner.
Guarantee :: Guarantee (n.) In law and common usage: to undertake or engage for the payment of (a debt) or the performance of (a duty) by another person; to undertake to secure (a possession, right, claim, etc.) to another against a specified contingency, or at all avents; to give a guarantee concerning; to engage, assure, or secure as a thing that may be depended on; to warrant; as, to guarantee the execution of a treaty..
Sheriff :: Sheriff (n.) The chief officer of a shire or county, to whom is intrusted the execution of the laws, the serving of judicial writs and processes, and the preservation of the peace..
Factum :: Factum (n.) The due execution of a will, including everything necessary to its validity..
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