"The plaintiff is certainly estopped or precluded from contesting the issue of the sharing of assets and liabilities of the old Ondo State which had long been settled with it...
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"By conduct and express approval the status of the Abenimota family as a Ruling House was recognised... Exhibit 20 was jointly signed by the representatives of both Ruling Houses. Thus...
"Where a person has expended money on the land of another in the expectation, induced or encouraged, by the owner of the land that he would be allowed to remain...
"Where one or more of such issues have been distinctly raised in a cause of action and appropriately resolved or determined between the same parties in a court of competent...
"Where an issue has earlier on been adjudicated upon by a court of competent jurisdiction and the same issue comes incidentally in question in any subsequent proceedings between the same...
 CIVIL PROCEDURE — Pleadings — Estoppel — Whether Issue Estoppel Must Be Specifically Pleaded
"Under the modern practice, it is not however, necessary to plead estoppel in any particular form so long as the matters constituting the estoppel are stated in such a manner...
"For issue estoppel to apply the following ingredients must be present - 1. the parties must be the same in the previous and present actions; 2. the same question that...
"Issue estoppel applies whether the point involved in the earlier decision is one of fact or law or one of mixed fact and law."
"It is an act of deceit for the respondent to approbate and reprobate. Having voluntarily sought to be substituted for the deceased sole defendant, contested the action and failed, they...
"The law is that any party relying on estoppel must specifically plead it. It is wrong for a court to raise and decide an issue of estoppel, such as estoppel...
"Where a public authority, through its statutory agent (the Abandoned Property Authority), represents to a former lessee by a written instrument that it has released the property to him, it...
"Though admissions are not conclusive proof of the matters admitted, an admission of any fact in issue or relevant fact by a party or his agent, whether the admission was...