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EXECUTION (from Lat. ex-sequor, exsecutus, follow or carry out) , the carrying into effect of anything, whether a rite, a piece of music, an office, &c.; and so sometimes involving a notion of skill in the performance. Technically, the word is used in law in the execution of a deed (its formal signing
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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT (q.v.).Civil Execution may be defined as the process by which the judgments or orders of courts of law are made effectual. In Roman law the earliest mode of execution was the seizure, legalized by the actio per manus injectionem, of the debtor as a slave of the creditor. During the later Republic, imprisonment took the place of slavery. Under the regime of the actio per manus injectionem, the debtor might dispute the debtthe issue being raised by his finding a substitute (vindex) to conduct the case for him. By the time of Gains (iv. 25) the actio per manus injectionem had been superseded by the actio judicati, the object
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