RULE OF LAW VS RULE OF FORCE- DIFFERENCE.

 Nwadiajuebowe vs. Nwawo (2004) 6 NWLR (Part 869) Page 439, Ratio 2.

RULE of law and rule of force are mutually exclusive. Law rules by reason and morality, force rules by violence and immorality. Thus, where the rule of law operates, the rule of self-help by force is abandoned. Therefore, once parties have submitted to jurisdiction of the court, they must not resort to self-help. In other words, once the court is seised of a matter, no party has the right to take the law into his own hands. The whole rationale for this position is that if parties are allowed to resort to self-help, the machinery of justice will not only ground to a halt, but will be most ineffective in the enforcement of court processes. Thus, once the court is seised of a matter, no party has a right to take law into his own hands.