Jordan Foreign Judgments Enforcement  Law

The text of Jordan Foreign Judgments Enforcement  Law, still valid and updated to 2022.

Article 1

 This law shall be called (The Foreign Judgments Enforcement  Law of 1952) and shall come into force one month after its publication in the Official Gazette.

Article 2

 The term (foreign judgment) in this law means every judgment issued by a court outside the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (including religious courts) related to legal procedures and requiring the payment of a sum of money or judgment in a movable property or the settlement of an account, and includes the arbitrators’ decision in arbitration procedures, If that decision has become by virtue of the law applicable in the country in which the arbitration took place enforceable as a decision issued by the court in the said country.

Article 3

 A foreign judgment may be enforced in Jordan by filing a case requesting  enforcement to be submitted before a court of first instance.

Article 4

The case is filed with a request for the enforcement  of a foreign judgment by means of a petition submitted to the court of first instance in which the Judgment  debtor  resides within its jurisdiction, or to the court within whose jurisdiction the debtor ’s property on which the Judgment creditor wishes to enforce the judgment, if the Judgment  debtor  does not reside in the Jordan.

Article 5

The court may notify persons residing outside its jurisdiction under conditions it deems desirable, in accordance with the rules of  Jordan procedural law.

Article 6

The judgment creditor shall submit to the court a certified copy of the judgment required to be enforced along with a certified copy of its translation if the judgment is in a language other than Arabic, and another copy to be sent to the creditor person.

Article 7

1- The court may reject the petition submitted to it to enforce a foreign judgment in the following cases: –

• If the court that issued the aforementioned judgment was not have the Jurisdiction to issue it.
• If the debtor wasn’t having a  business within the court jurisdiction that issued the judgment, or if he was not residing within its jurisdiction and did not voluntarily appear before the court and did not accept its jurisdiction.
• If the debtor did not notify the subpoena from the court that issued the judgment and did not appear before it, even though he resides within an authority covered by the court’s jurisdiction, or was engaged in his business there, or
• If the judgment was obtained by fraud.
• If the debtor person has satisfied the court that the judgment has not yet acquired final form, or
• If the judgment is due to a lawsuit that the courts of Jordan do not hear, either because it violates public order or public morals.

2- The court may also reject the petition submitted to it to request the enforcement  of a judgment issued by one of the courts of any country whose law is not permitted to enforce judgments issued by the courts of Jordan.

Article 8

The provisions of the Jordan procedural trial Law shall apply to lawsuits filed in accordance with this law.

Article 9

The judgments issued under this law shall be enforced  in the manner in which judgments as it is issued by the courts of the of Jordan.

Article 10

 The following laws shall be cancelled :

1- The Palestinian Law (Exchange of Enforcement of Judgments  law of 1922).

2- The procedures  of Foreign Judgments of the Palestinian law Year 1928.

Article 11

 The Prime Minister and the Minister of Justice are charged with implementing the provisions of this law.