Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

execute, ub

1. To perform or complete (a contract or duty) <once the contract was fullyexecuted, the parties owed no further contractual duties to each other>. 2. To change (as a legal interest) from one form to another <the shifting use was executed into a valid legal estate>. 3. To make (a legal document) valid by signing; to bring (a legal document) into its final, legally enforceable form <each party executed the contract without a signature witness. 4. To put to death, esp. by legal sentence <Johnson was executed shortly after midnight>. 5. To enforce and collect on (a money judgment) <Williams asked the sheriff to execute on the judgment >.