Principle Archive

No map, plan or diagram of land, if prepared after the 20th October, 1897 shall, save for good cause shown to the court, be admitted in…

The court cannot give a judgment against a person who will be affected by its decision if such person is not made a party or has…

Once a document is tendered during proceedings and declared inadmissible by the trial Judge it should be marked 'Tendered and Rejected'. The rejected document must be…

This court will not consider an issue which was not raised at the court below and no leave of this court was sought before the issue…

Assuming without conceding that the respondents were not in physical possession of the disputed land, since the respondents have been shown to have a better title…

The law is well settled that the party claiming land is not bound to plead and prove more than one root of title to succeed. If…

Where, however, the traditional histories put out by one of the parties is so intrinsically conflicting that a reasonable tribunal would not place credence on it,…

It is not the law that once there are conflicts in the traditional histories adduced, the court must promptly declare them inconclusive and thereupon proceed to…

The law is that, any party relying on a Native Customary Court judgment in a subsequent Suit must relate it to a plan. The plan must…

The defendants having thus raised the issue of standing by the plea of estoppel res judicata it is for the defendants to show that the parties…

To constitute estoppel the parties, subject-matter and issue must be the same. One cannot talk of Exhibit G in this regard. Besides, the land contained in…

The law is trite that a conclusion or finding not appealed against is deemed correct until the contrary is shown.