Principle Archive

Where an accused acted under an honest and reasonable belief in a state of situation which if true would have justified the act, he may set…

The test of honest belief for defence of mistake rests on whether the accused honestly and in good faith made a mistake without fault or negligence.…

The Supreme Court will not interfere with concurrent findings of fact of the two courts below, unless there is some miscarriage of justice or a violation…

Section 3 raises certain presumptions and ensures the writer is identified or traced where doubt or denial exists about statements made by the illiterate. The protection…

The requirement that the writer of a document signed or thumb-printed by an illiterate person must write his name in the jurat has been held to…

It is elementary and settled law that a court will not normally grant any relief to a party which has not been specifically claimed.

A party who disowns a ruling house and asserts it does not exist, and that he does not come from it, cannot be a candidate. If…

Issues on appeal must emanate from claims made in the court of first instance and must be traced to the request, prayer, or claim of the…

The Supreme Court, in the absence of special circumstances indicating obvious error leading to miscarriage of justice, will not reopen concurrent and consistent questions of fact.

It is settled that a party cannot maintain on appeal a case diametrically different from one maintained at the trial. An appeal is normally a continuation…

Once I have found that the document by which the defendant gained possession is void, the defendant's entry to the land is void ab initio and…

It is a cardinal principle in the construction of a statute that where the words of a statute are clear or unambiguous, those words shall be…