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A writ of execution (executive instrument) is a document the law allows to be enforced directly through the execution court without first winning a substantive lawsuit. In the UAE the family includes final judgments and court-ratified settlements, arbitral awards after ratification, notarised instruments to the extent the law gives them executive force, and — significantly since the cheque reforms — dishonoured cheques, which the holder can take straight to execution for the unpaid amount. The execution judge opens a file, notifies the debtor to pay within the legal period, and then deploys enforcement tools: account garnishment, asset attachment and sale, travel bans, and other measures. The debtor can raise execution disputes, but these contest enforcement, not the underlying right. It matters because holding an executive instrument collapses years of litigation into a direct collection procedure. You meet the concept when choosing how to paper a deal — getting your counterparty's obligations into executable form is one of the smartest moves in UAE practice.