If both competing deeds are registered, each takes effect as against the other from the date of registration. The benefit of earlier registration is preserved.

Having referred the matter to the police and caused the respondent to be charged, the appellant was bound to wait for the outcome of the trial.…

A counter-claim is a substantive action which must be proved to the satisfaction of the court for a counter-claimant to be entitled to judgment.

The dismissal of the respondent's claims did not automatically declare the appellants as the owners of the land in dispute. A counter-claim would have been required…

The defence of estoppel by res judicata cannot succeed unless it is shown that the parties, issues, and the subject matter were the same in the…

The Supreme Court does not interfere with concurrent findings except where special reasons are shown, such as substantial error on the face of the record, decision…

A trial judge can indulge a party for some time but not for all times. The judge has the right to withdraw indulgence when fair hearing…

A court must hear a motion or any process before it, however unmeritorious. A court should not ignore a motion or process before it and give…

Fair hearing is for both parties, not a one-way traffic. The court creates the environment, but it is not the court's duty to ensure a party…

The fair hearing principle is not for the weakling, the slumberer, the indolent or the lazy litigant, but for the party who is alive and kicking…

A question of mixed law and fact arises where the facts struggle with the law for first place. A little grain of fact in the law…

An appellate court will not reverse a finding of fact made by a trial court unless such finding is not supported by evidence or is perverse.