1. To perform or complete (a contract or duty) (once the contract was fully executed, the parties owed no further contractual duties to each other). [Cases: Contracts
6. C.J.S. Contracts § 8.]
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). [Cases: Sentencing and Punishment 1795. C.J.S. Criminal Law §§ 1591–1592.]
5. To enforce and collect on (a money judgment) (Williams asked the sheriff to execute on the judgment). [Cases: Execution 1; Federal Civil Procedure 2691. C.J.S. Executions §§ 2, 15.]
