the judgment shall state what amount is due to the plaintiff and what amount, if any, is due to the defendant and
shall be for recovery of any sum which appears to he due to either party.
(2) The judgment of the Court, with respect to any sum awarded to the defendant, shall have the same effect and
be subject to the same Rules, as if that sum had been claimed by the defendant in a separate suit against the
plaintiff.
6. A person directed by a decree or order to pay money or do any other act is bound to obey the decree or order
without any demand for payments or performance and if no time is therein expressed he shall be bound to do so
immediately after the decree or order has been made (except as to costs the amount whereof may require to be
ascertained by taxation), unless the Court enlarges the time by any subsequent order.
7. The Court at the time of making any judgment or order, or at any time afterwards, may direct the time within
which the payment or other act is to be made or done, reckoned from the date of the judgment or order, or from
some other point of time, as the Court thinks fit and may order interest at a rate not exceeding ten naira per
centum per annum to be paid upon any judgment, commencing from the date thereof or afterwards, as the case
may be.
8. (1) When any judgment or order directs the payment of money, the Court may, for any sufficient reason, order
that the amount shall be aid by instalments, with or without interest.
(2) The order may be made at the time of giving judgment, or at any time afterwards and may be rescinded upon
sufficient cause at any time.
9. Every order, if and when drawn up, shall be dated the day of the week, month, and year on which it is made,
unless the Court or a Judge chambers otherwise directs and shall take effect accordingly.
10. (1) Where an order has been made not embodying any special terms, nor including any special directions, but
simply enlarging time for taking any proceeding or doing any act or giving leave for(a) the issue of any writ other than a writ of attachment;
(b) the amendment of any writ or pleadings;
(c) the filing of any document; or
(d) any act to be done by an officer of the Court other than a legal practitioner,
it shall not be necessary to draw up that order unless the Court or a Judge in chambers otherwise directs but the
production of a note or memorandum of that order signed by a Judge shall be sufficient authority for the
enlargement of time, issue, amendment, filing or other act.
(2) A direction that the costs of the order shall be costs in any cause, or matter shall not be deemed a special
direction within the meaning of the section.
11. (1) Orders, other than final orders, shall not be entered after being drawn up but shall be filed and a note of
the filing shall be made in a book kept for the purpose.
(2) Every order so filed shall be deemed to be duly entered and the date of the filing shall be deemed the date of
entry.
(3) In the case of procedure orders drawn up in chambers, no entry thereof shall be necessary before an
attachment can be issued for disobedience thereof.
Order 41
Habeas Corpus Proceedings
1. Where a person is alleged to be wrongfully detained, an application may be made for an order that he be
produced in Court for the purpose of being released from detention.