"Although the case is entirely civil, and in civil matters the preponderance of probability may constitute sufficient ground for a verdict, this general rule is subject to the statutory provision...
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"Where a party admits that he wrote and signed a document and that the photocopy shown to him is the same as the original in all respects, the document could...
"Exhibits which are extracts from a banker's book are admissible if certain conditions have been fulfilled. That condition shall be the oral evidence showing that the Exhibits are extracts from...
"In civil cases where the trial has been before a Judge and jury, the wrongful admission of evidence cannot be made a ground of appeal unless the appellant had formally...
"A decision not on the merits could not qualify as a defence through the principle of Res Judicata. Where a suit was preliminarily dismissed before hearing on its merit, such...
"With the issue of the writ of summons in this case there is the presumption that an application was made by the plaintiff to the Court Registrar for the issue...
"Non-compliance with rules of court will not necessarily result in the judgment given in the case being set aside. Once a step is taken in the proceedings by a party...
"A party to civil proceedings is not allowed to make an assertion against the other party, whether of facts or legal consequences of facts, the correctness of which is an...
"Where the plaintiffs in Exhibit A conceded the title in the land to the present defendants through their grandfather, Kole, who was a tenant to the Eleidi Atala family, and...
"The 4th PW (the 3rd plaintiff) admitted that the land in dispute in this case is the same land in dispute in Exhibit A. In the face of this admission...
"In civil cases, before the principle of res judicata is applied, the res (the subject matter) in contention must be the same; the issue, and the parties the same, in...
"Under the High Court Civil Procedure Rules 1988 of Ogun State, there is no provision for a High Court to order non-suit unlike in the 1977 rules of court. The...