Section 19: Interpretation.

(1) In this Part and Parts IV, V and VI, unless the context otherwise requires-
[L.N, 47 of 1955.]
"attached" includes distrained upon and seized;
"attachment" includes distress and seizure;
"court" includes the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory Abuja or of the State;
"judge" means a judge of the High Court;
"judgment" includes "order";
"judgment creditor" means any person for the time being entitled to enforce a judgment;
"judgment debtor" means a person liable under a judgment;
"magistrate's court" means a magistrate's court established under a Federal law or any law of the State or under any law having effect as if it were a law of the State;
"order" includes an injunction, an order for the payment of the costs of any party, and an order for the payment of a counterclaim by a plaintiff;
"process" means a formal written authority addressed to the sheriff for the enforcement of a judgment in manner provided by this Act or prescribed, and includes writ of execution and warrant and order of arrest, commitment or imprisonment;
"sheriff" includes deputy sheriff;
"writ of execution" includes writ of attachment and sale, writ of delivery, writ of possession and writ of sequestration.
(2) Nothing in this Part or in Part IV, V or VI of this Act shall be construed to authorise the service or execution outside the State of the process of a court.