SHERIFFS AND CIVIL PROCESS ACT

Section 28: Penalty for obstructing execution.

1945Section 28 of 112Federal Republic of Nigeria

If any person rescues or attempts to rescue any goods seized in execution under process of a court or in any other way resists or obstructs the execution of any process for the enforcement of a judgment of a court, he shall be liable, either on an order made in that behalf by the court from which the writ of execution or other process issues, or on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding N100, and any bailiff of the court may take him into custody with or without warrant, and bring him before the court.

Cite this section

Section 28, SHERIFFS AND CIVIL PROCESS ACT (1945).

https://repo.podus.ai/laws/sheriffs-and-civil-process-act/section/28/