As a general proposition, the legal systems of the world, developed and less
developed, are less than fully accommodating of applications for the enforcement of a
foreign court judgment. When the court in a State is asked to enforce a foreign
judgment, it is being asked to give full faith and credit to the foreign judgment and not
to go behind it and reexamine the case on the merits. In effect it is being asked to treat
the judgment as one equivalent to its own. As judicial standards around the world vary
considerably, there may be a reluctance by the State to accord equal status to the
foreign judgments.