Meaning of execution

A Mumbai flat-buyer spends six years in court and finally gets a decree: the builder must refund ₹40 lakh. Six months later the money has not arrived, and the paper decree has not moved a rupee. What now? The answer is execution, the stage at which a court turns its own words into something real. Most students treat it as an afterthought to the suit. In practice, and in the examination, it is a whole second case with its own rules.

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Execution is the process by which the court enforces a decree or order against the person who will not obey it, using the tools in section 51 and the detailed rules of Order XXI; the Code does not define the word, so you explain it through the provisions.

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