Self-Help. If you lose a civil case and are ordered to pay money to the winning side, you become a judgment debtor. The court will not collect the money for your creditor, but if you do not pay voluntarily, the creditor (the person you owe money to) can use different enforcement tools to get you to pay the judgment.
Yukon Mayor John Alberts pauses as he answers questions from the media during a recess in a special meeting of the Yukon City Council to discuss the city's current financial problems on Tuesday, March 29, 2015.
Image copyright AP Image caption Sadiq Khan has regained the mayor's office for Labour Labour's Sadiq Khan has been elected as London's new mayor - but who is the man who will be in charge of the UK's capital city for the next four years? Sadiq Khan's life to date has been characterised by beating the odds - which is what he has just done to become mayor of London. When Labour politicians put themselves forward to run for mayor last year, Mr Khan was far from being the favourite. The bookies' money was on Baroness Jowell, a veteran of the Tony Blair years who had helped bring the Olympics to London. But if there is a pattern in Mr Khan's career, it's one of coming from behind. The new mayor did not have a privileged start in life. He was one of eight children born to Pakistani immigrants, a bus driver and a seamstress, on a south London housing estate.