Principle Archive

Once a ground of appeal is succinctly couched, specifically described, and avoids vagueness, repetition, narration, or argument, so that the adverse party knows the exact complaint,…

A ground of appeal alleging error in law and misdirection in fact is not thereby incompetent if it otherwise complies with rules requiring that a ground…

The Supreme Court will not interfere with concurrent findings of the lower courts unless they are not justified by the evidence and have thereby occasioned a…

The phrase "subject to further changes in respect of the rent by the Federal Government of Nigeria" does not mean that the sub-lessor must seek and…

A policy statement or guideline whose non-implementation does not entitle a party to legal redress does not create a contractual relationship. Only parties to a contract…

While parties are bound by their pleading, not all facts germane to a case must be pleaded. Where facts are pleaded which raise a reasonable inference…

A party is not allowed to change his case at will in each court, the proof of a case not being beyond all reasonable doubt but…

Parties are bound by their pleadings, and evidence led on unpleaded matters goes to no issue.

Since no issues were formulated by the appellant from grounds 1, 6 and 7, they are deemed abandoned and should be struck out.

Where family property is conveyed as personal property, the purchaser gets no title to the property.

In order to succeed in an action of title to land, a plaintiff need not prove all the five ways. A plaintiff can succeed if he…

Until it is shown that family or communal land has been partitioned, individual members of the family or community have no distinct interest in the land…