Section 105 Sheriffs and Civil Process Act

Section 105 of the Sheriffs and Civil Process Act 1945 is about Registration of judgments and proceedings thereunder. It provides as follows:

(1) Upon production of such certi ficate to the registrar or other proper officer of any court of like jurisdiction in any other State or the Capital Territory such officer shall forthwith register the same by entering the particulars thereof in a book to be kept by such ofticer and to be called “The Nigeria Register of Judgment”.
[L.N. 47 of 1955.]

(2) From the date of registration the certificate shall be a record of the court in which it is registered, and shall have the same force and effect in all respects as a judgment of that court, and the like proceedings may be taken upon the certificate as if the judgment had been a judgment of that court.

(3) For the purpose of this section-
(a) the High Courts (including any court deemed to be a High Court) of the several States and the Capital Territory are courts of like jurisdiction to one another;
(b) the magistrates’ courts exercising jurisdiction in the several States and the
Capital Territory are of like jurisdiction to one another.

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