Executed this day of (Meaning In Contracts: All You Need To Know)

What does Executed this day of mean?

How do you sign a contract saying executed this day of?

What are the important elements you should know!

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Executed this day of

So what is “Executed this day of”?

This phrase is used to refer to the date a contract, a form or a legal document was signed.

Any document that requires the parties to specify a date may have this phrase such as:

• Forms 
• Contracts
• PDF documents
• Online forms
• Legal documents
• Court documents
• Subpoenas 
• Applications

Legal documents can refer to many dates, such as:

• Effective date
• Project date
• Start date
• End date
• Expiration date

When you use the phrase executed this day of or its variations, you are referring to the specific date the contract was signed.

It’s useful to have the term “executed” in the phrase as it makes it clear that it’s the “signature” date that we are referring to rather than another date such as the effective date of the terms of the contract.

Variations 

What are the different variations of the phrase “Executed this day of”?

You can have this phrase appear in different ways in your contracts, forms or legal documents, such as:

• Executed this day of ________________ at
• Executed on this day
• Executed this of at 
• Executed at _____________ on this day 

They all mean the same thing.

You can also have various words constituting the phrase, such as:

• Executed on 
• Executed this
• Executed at 

“Executed on” and “Executed this” generally refers to the actual signature date, whereas “executed at” refers to the place or city where the signatory signed.

How do you fill it out

When you see something like “executed this ___ day of _______, 20___”, how should you fill it out?

Let’s look at how to fill out executed this day of!

In a contract

You may see this at the end of a contract:

• Executed at ________________, on this ____ day of _____________, 20____

What should you do?

You’ll fill it out as follows:

• Executed at Chicago, on this 15th day of March, 20___

Here is the breakdown:

• Executed at: this is where the contract is signed (Chicago)
• On this ____: this is the day of the month (15th) 
• Day of ____: this is the month (March)
• 20__: this is the last two digits of the year the document was signed 

In a form 

This is what you may see at some point in time in a form, PDF document, or another document: 

• Executed this ___ day of ________, 20___

Here is how you should fill it out:

• Executed this 15th day of March, 20___

Essentially, the first blank line is where you need to put the day of the month and the second blank line is where you put the month of the year.

Examples

Let’s look at a couple of examples of Executed this day?

To better illustrate the point, let’s look at an example of this phrase appearing on top of a contract:

A second example we can use to show this phrase is at the end of a contract, form, or document: 

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Takeaways 

So what should you do when you see executed this date of or executed at this day of?

What is the meaning of “executed at”?

Let’s look at a summary of our findings.

Executed this day of:

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