§ 9-13-4.Judge may frame executions

Executions ordinarily issue as a routine clerical act once judgment is entered; the clerk handles that step on the strength of the judgment alone. This section gives the superior court judge a further, standing power: the judge may personally frame the writ of execution needed to carry any lawful judgment or decree into effect.

The judge’s role is to draft or shape the execution so it matches the judgment or decree the court rendered. Once framed, the judge causes the clerk to issue it — the clerk still performs the act of issuance, but the judge has supplied its content. Nothing in the statute ties this power to the judgment being out of the ordinary; the judge may exercise it for any lawful judgment or decree, whether or not a standard execution form would have served just as well.

The power carries one boundary: it reaches only lawful judgments or decrees rendered in that judge’s own court. Within that boundary, framing the writ is an option the judge may use case by case, alongside the clerk’s ordinary process for issuing executions.