Principle Archive

All suits for specific performance or upon breach of any contract may be commenced and determined in the judicial division in which such a contract ought…

The determination of where a state has its business place ought to be determined by the provisions of section 3(3) of the Constitution, which states that…

Service on the liaison office of the 1st appellant, if there is service at all, is proper personal service on the appellants.

A court is competent to exercise jurisdiction where: (1) the court is properly constituted; (2) the subject-matter is within its jurisdiction; and (3) the case comes…

The question of jurisdiction, being radically fundamental, can be raised at any stage of the proceedings and even for the first time in the Supreme Court.

For a statement of claim to disclose a reasonable cause of action, it must set out the legal rights of the plaintiffs and the obligations of…

If the court has no jurisdiction to determine a subject-matter, the proceedings thereto are and remain a nullity however well conducted and brilliantly decided they might…

Reasonable cause of action means a cause of action with some chance of success when only the allegations in the pleadings are considered. If the alleged…

A cause of action is the entire set of circumstances giving rise to an enforceable claim—the facts or combination of facts giving rise to a right…

A claim for special damages must be strictly proved.

Where traditional evidence of parties in a land matter is in conflict or inconclusive, the court should not go by the credibility of witnesses, but should…

A tenant at sufferance of property is entitled to full protection of the law until lawfully ejected or sued in court.