Even though 'questions for determination' might have the same effect and meaning as 'issues for determination', it has always been the issues for determination that, by…

Ordinarily, where an appellant failed to appeal against an interlocutory order or ruling of a trial court within the time prescribed by S. 25(2)(a) of the…

Where on the other hand, the complaint of the appellant against the ruling is concerned with the wrongful admission of evidence or wrongful rejection of evidence,…

Just as it is the duty of a trial court to make findings on evidence placed before it, so it is the duty of an appellate…

It is implicit in Section 33(1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1979 which provides for the right to fair hearing that a…

Where two competing deeds are registered, each takes effect as against the other from the date of registration and the benefit of earlier registration is preserved.…

If a stranger builds on my land knowing it to be mine, there is no principle of equity which would prevent my claiming the land with…

Furthermore, for a delay in taking action, there must be knowledge on the part of the plaintiff of all the facts giving him a cause of…

With the above finding, the only option open to the learned trial Judge was to have rejected the respondent's defences of laches and acquiescence which lacked…

There is no duty on a person having estate or interest in land or other property for that matter to raise protest against a trespass or…

Laches is not delay alone; some other factor must exist, or at least the delay must be such that the existence of some other factors may…

A man is not to be deprived of his legal rights unless he has acted in such a way as would make it fraudulent for him…