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Writ of execution   /rɪt əv ˌɛksəkjˈuʃən/   Listen
Writ of execution

noun
1.
A routine court order that attempts to enforce the judgment that has been granted to a plaintiff by authorizing a sheriff to carry it out.  Synonym: execution.






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... before I spoke. I had then gone on to say that all present would find, in the first page of the catalogue that was lying before them, in the last paragraph before the first lot, the following words: 'Sold in pursuance of a writ of execution issued by a creditor.' I had then proceeded to remind my friends, that however frivolous, not to say contemptible, the business by which a man got his goods together, still his goods were as dear to him, and as cheap to society (if sold without reserve), as though his pursuits had been of a character ...
— The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete • John Forster



Words linked to "Writ of execution" :   law, court order, jurisprudence



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