Principle Archive

A party basing title on a grant must plead and prove the origin of the grantor's title unless admitted. Mere production of a deed of grant…

To establish possession, it is not necessary to take active steps like enclosing or cultivating the land. The type of conduct indicating possession varies with the…

Parties are bound by their pleadings. Evidence at variance with the pleadings must be rejected. If such evidence is admitted through oversight, the court must treat…

Where an appellate court can do complete justice between the parties, a new trial should not be ordered. Where a finding depends on credibility of witnesses,…

A court process that is filed but not known to law is null and void ab initio. If such process results in a judgment, ruling, or…

For a defendant to lose his right to call evidence when he makes a no case submission, there must be no doubt as to the final…

A court has a legal duty to hear any court process, including a motion before it. The process may be downright stupid, unmeritorious, or even an…

Refusal of a court to hear a motion is a breach of the right to fair hearing guaranteed under the Constitution and an essence of the…

The practice has always been to give priority to hearing a motion seeking to regularise a process. That is the hallmark of a proper exercise of…

A party cannot appeal a decision that does not wrongfully deprive him of an entitlement or something he had a right to demand. Without such a…

No citizen should be put to the rigours of trial in a criminal proceeding unless available evidence points, prima facie, to his complicity in the commission…

Suspicion, however well placed, does not amount to prima facie evidence. More facts than are in the printed record will be needed to nail the appellant…