State of having legal force.
The genuinity - as distinguished from the efficacity or the regularity - of a sacrament as a result of some formal dispositions being fulfilled.
The state of being valid, authentic or genuine.
A quality of a measurement indicating the degree to which the measure reflects the underlying construct, that is, whether it measures what it purports to measure (see reliability).
a court order authorising an officer to carry a judgment into execution.
a court order authorising an officer to seize and sell the judgment debtor's property in order to pay his judgment debt.