Section 43-2-604
Award - Force and effect; execution.
If such award, or any part thereof, is for the payment of money, it shall, when approved and entered of record, have the force and effect of a judgment at law in favor of the person to whom the money may be awarded; and execution may issue thereon as in other cases.
(Code 1867, §2173; Code 1876, §2545; Code 1886, §2187; Code 1896, §255; Code 1907, §2706; Code 1923, §5944; Code 1940, T. 61, §346.)