Mkuu labda kama hukuelewa, ni vizuri ukajua kuwa utaratibu wa kumkamata na kumshweka jela mdaiwa upo katika nchi nyingi duniani iwapo mdaiwa anashindwa kuheshimu amri ya mahakama ya kulipa deni au anakwepa kwa njia moja au nyingine kulipa deni. Vinginevyo, kama ingekuwa ni madai ni mahusinao binafsi, pasingekuwa na haja ya kuyapeleka katika vyombo vya Sheria ili haki itendekea. Kama pasingekuwa na utartaibu kama huu pia, wadai wengi wangeishia kutembea na maamuzi ya mahakama mikononi pasipo kuwa na maana yeyote hasa kwa wadaiwa sugu na ambao hawapo tayari kukubaliana na hukumu za mahakama. Mahakama zingedhalaulika sana.
Kama hukujua, soma sheria ya Mwendo wa Madai (Civil Procedure Act No. 49/1966 utayakuta haya:
Section 68 : In order to prevent the ends of justice from being defeated the court may, subject to any rules in that behalf-
(a) issue a warrant to arrest the defendant and bring him before the court to show cause why he should not give security for his appearance, and if he fails to comply with any order for security commit him as a civil prisoner;
(c) grant a temporary injunction and in case of disobedience commit the person guilty thereof as a civil prisoner and order that his property be attached and sold;
Section 44.-(1) A judgment-debtor may be arrested in execution of a decree at any hour and on any day, and shall, as soon as practicable, be brought before the court, and the court may order his detention:
Section 46. - (1) Every person detained as a civil prisoner in execution of a decree shall be so detained-
(a) where the decree is for the payment of a sum of money exceeding one hundred shillings, for a period of six months; and
(b) in any other case, for a period of six weeks:
Provided that he shall be released from such detention before the
expiration of the said period of six months or six weeks, as the case
may be-
(i) on the amount mentioned in the warrant for his detention being paid to the officer in charge of the prison; or
(ii) on the decree against him being otherwise fully satisfied; or
(iii) on the request of the person on whose application he has been so detained; o
(iv) on the omission by the person on whose application he has been so detained to pay subsistence allowance:
Provided, further, that he shall not be released from such detention under clause (ii) or clause (iii) without the order of the cour
(2) A judgment-debtor released from detention under this section shall not merely by reason of his release be discharged from his debt.
Section 55. Where the court is satisfied that the holder of a decree for the possession of immovable property or that the purchaser of immovable property sold in execution of a decree has been resisted or obstructed in obtaining possession of the property by the judgment-debtor or some person on his behalf and that such resistance or obstruction was without any just cause, the court may, at the instance of the decreeholder or purchaser, order the judgment-debtor or such other person to be detained as a civil prisoner for a term which may extend to thirty days and may further direct that the decree-holder or purchaser be put into possession of the property.
Order XXI, Rule 28 - Every decree for the payment of money, including a decree for the payment of money as t he alternative to some other relief, may be executed by the detention as a civil prisoner of the judgment-debtor or by the attachment and sale of his property, or by both.