CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION
Background to the Study
The main purpose of adjudication is the pursuit of justice. This entails the resolution or determination of disputes between the parties by the court which has been vested with judicial powers to determine the dispute. In A.G of Oyo State v. Fair Lakes Hotel Ltd,1 The Supreme Court defined judgment as “The sentenced of law pronounced by the court upon the matter contained in the order”. Once court determines any dispute, it becomes authentic official judicial decision, binding on all partiers before the court.
Enforcement is the last stage of the judicial process after the legal right, claim or interest has ended in a judgment or order which remains to be enforced. It is the process whereby a judgment or order of court is enforced or to which it has made effective according to law.2 Most judgment requires compliances with their terms. It is only in the case of a declaratory judgment which merely declares what the right of a party is, without imposing any sanction on a defendant or directing either of the parties to do anything that execution is not called for or levied.3 Execution will be totally unnecessary where there is voluntary compliance with the judgment or order of the court.
It is trite that, every successful litigant is entitled to the fruit of his judgment. Therefore, the overriding function of judicial process of enforcement is to enable the judgment creditor (the person in whose favor judgment or order was made) reap the fruit of his judgment with a view to
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