"Production of documents of title, is of course, one of the four ways of proving title to land."
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"Where there are admitted facts or uncontradicted facts on the record, in respect of which a trial court failed to draw a conclusion, a Court of Appeal is at liberty...
"The Court below having heard the appeal and allowed it ought to have made consequential orders on the relief sought by the plaintiff/appellant from the Court of first instance."
"The law is that a person possessed of goods as his property has a good title as against every stranger, and that one who takes them from him having no...
"When the question is whether any person is owner of anything of which he is shown to be in possession, the burden of proving that he is not the owner...
"Where the character of the land, the subject matter of litigation, would be radically and irrevocably altered (e.g., by erecting permanent buildings on agricultural land), and such alteration would render...
"A successful plea of res judicata requires identity of parties or their privies. Where one suit is a representative action and the other is a personal action involving different individuals,...
"It is well known that before this doctrine (of estoppel per rem judicatam) can operate, it must be shown that the parties, issues and subject matter were the same in...
"Evidence led as to the custom of a trade or business which was not pleaded goes to no issue and is inadmissible. Such evidence cannot form the basis of a...
"Where a contract of employment or consultancy makes no express provision for its duration or termination, the common law implies a term that it is for an indefinite period and...
"A party is bound by the case he sets up in his pleadings. It is for the plaintiff to prove the case set up by him. It is not for...
"In a claim for special damages, such as loss of specific future commissions, the claimant must plead with particularity and lead credible evidence to substantiate the claimed amounts. Belief or...