Where a maker denies signature, the court may: (i) receive evidence from the attesting magistrate; (ii) hear evidence from a person familiar with the signature or…

Where a defendant raises a defence that the plaintiff's action is statute-barred and the defence is sustained, the proper order for the trial court is dismissal…

It is not correct to say that the identity of the land in question was not defined. It was properly defined and understood and known by…

Where an action is statute-barred, a plaintiff loses the right to enforce the cause of action by judicial process because the prescribed period has elapsed. Legal…

Where words of a statute are clear and unambiguous, courts must give them their natural, literal, and ordinary meaning, unless doing so would produce gross and…

Where a transaction is entirely within the statutory duties of a public authority, it comes squarely within section 72(1) of the enabling Decree, and the action…

Where the law provides for bringing an action within a prescribed period, proceedings shall not be brought after the time prescribed. An action brought outside the…

An interim injunction is a temporary form of injunction lasting for a very short period. When the trial court dismissed the suit, the ex parte order…

Where the ground raises an issue of law based on accepted undisputed or admitted facts as found by the court below, it is a ground of…

It is settled law that where two competing parties claim to be in possession of land in dispute in a case, the law ascribes possession to…

Where the parties, by the evidence adduced both oral and documentary, are ad idem on the identity of the land in dispute, the fact that different…

In civil cases, the onus of proof is not as fixed as in criminal cases. The general burden lies on the plaintiff but is not static.…