The court is not a Father Christmas. It does not award what a party has not claimed. A party cannot obtain relief without a counter-claim.

Failure to admit or deny an averment amounts to admission. Where no issue is joined, the fact stands proved.

Land under compulsory acquisition cannot be validly sold by its original owner. Such a sale is null and void.

Where inhabitants join their parcels of land together and adopt a common name, they constitute a family for communal ownership of that land. All such members…

Where the appellant is served with motion papers and is absent without reason, and his counsel also fails to attend without prior notification, the court may…

Where an appeal is dismissed for want of prosecution following the failure of the appellant to file a brief, the dismissal is final and the appeal…

Where there are two concurrent findings of fact by the lower courts, and the trial court did not fix boundaries arbitrarily, the Supreme Court will be…

Where inadmissible evidence is tendered, the other party must object. If he fails to object, the court may (in civil cases) reject it suo motu. On…

Where the appellants consented to the admission of a plan in evidence, they cannot later assert that the plan was inadmissible.

The admiralty jurisdiction of the Federal High Court can be exercised either by action in rem or by action in personam. The question whether the action…

Section 7(3) of the Admiralty Jurisdiction Act exempts a cause of action within admiralty jurisdiction that is enforceable in rem from the limitation provisions of section…

Under section 1(1)(p) of the Admiralty Jurisdiction Act, a claim by a shipper, charterer, or agent in respect of disbursements made on account of a ship…