Execution as enforcement process: judgment creditor obtains awarded relief through legal or equitable means under procedural law. Execution denotes the procedural mechanism for enforcing a court's judgment and is complete when the judgment creditor obtains the money, land, goods, or other relief awarded. Execution may proceed by common law writs (legal execution) or by equitable remedies (equitable execution), but in either form its operative purpose is to give effect to the judgment creditor's rights.