Principle Archive

A certificate of statutory or customary right of occupancy issued under the Land Use Act, 1978 cannot be said to be conclusive evidence of any right,…

The law is well settled that once a party pleads and traces his root of title in an action involving title to land to a particular…

The law is well settled that where the evidence given by a party to any proceedings was not challenged by the opposite party who had the…

It is beyond dispute that parties are bound by their pleadings and evidence which is at variance with the averments in the pleadings goes to no…

A free and voluntary confession of guilt whether judicial or extrajudicial, if it is direct and positive and properly established is sufficient proof of guilt and…

Furthermore, the infliction of fatal matchet cuts on the deceased by the accused as a mode of resentment bore no relationship to the provocation offered.

He could also not be said to have acted in the heat of passion when after inflicting those matcher cuts on his wife at home, he…

Even though the accused set up the defence of provocation, no amount of provocation can excuse homicide or render it excusable except by virtue of section…

The words themselves must be of such a provocative nature as to incense a reasonable man of the accused's standing in life and education to lose…

"...some act, or series of acts, done by the dead man to the accused which would cause in a reasonable person, and actually causes in the…

It is an accepted principle of law in homicide cases that where the cause of death is obvious as in the instant case medical evidence ceases…

From the facts disclosed in Exhibit '1 ', the evidence of the accused on oath at the trial and the evidence of the prosecution witnesses, I…