Principle Archive

Where evidence is given by a party and is not contradicted by the other party who has the opportunity to do so, and such evidence is…

Evaluation of evidence is primarily the function of the trial Judge. Interference by an appellate court occurs only where the trial court fails to evaluate such…

Where counsel for a party decides to throw in the towel on the reasoning that the case put forward is manifestly weak and nigh useless, and…

Nothing has been established to show that the concurrent findings are perverse, unsupported by evidence, arrived at by a wrong approach to evidence, or by wrong…

This court developed the law that the sale of family land by the head of the family as his own land is void. This principle applies…

In the evidential scene in the context of probative value, it is not the number of witnesses that matter but the quality of the evidence given.…

While it could be desirable that a person other than the person asserting the customary law should testify in support, it is not a desideratum. Section…

Contradictions in evidence can only avail the opposite party where they are material, substantial, and affect the live issues in the matter, to the extent that…

There is no statutory format for writing a judgment. Judgment writing being an art, needs the peculiar and personal dexterity of the Judge who is the…

When any judgment, official proceeding, contract, or disposition of property has been reduced to a document, no evidence may be given of its terms except the…

Every item contained in a claim for special damage must be specifically proved, and such proof must be characterized by testimony that ties each item with…

When a contractor is guilty of inordinate delay, indolence, lack of seriousness, persistent shoddy work, and purports to terminate the contract, the court should ignore such…