Principle Archive

No person who shows that he has been pardoned for a Criminal Offence shall again be tried for that offence.

No person who shows that he has been pardoned for a Criminal Offence shall again be tried for that offence.

What constitutes acknowledgment is a matter of fact depending on each case… Acknowledgment of debt owed to a Creditor has to be unconditional and unequivocal. The…

It is not required as espoused in many cases that the precise amount i.e. figures of the debt must be stated… the amount here is ascertainable…

It therefore cannot be correct for the Appellant to insinuate that having met the provisions of Section 38 (supra) only that Exhibit 'L' is admissible i.e.…

Where the law prescribes a particular method of exercising a statutory power, such power must be exercised accordingly and no other method is permissible. The disqualifying…

Where as in this case for a claim for a declaration of title, the appellants and their witnesses gave conflicting history of the appellant's root of…

It is incumbent on a party who asserts the existence of a fact to prove same... Since the appellants failed to discharge the onus of proof…

The notion of individual ownership is quite foreign to native ideas. Land belongs to the community, the village or the family, never to the individual.

The burden is on the individual as the person so alleging exclusive ownership of the land to prove his specific or absolute title as the case…

An appellate court will not interfere with findings of fact except where wrongly applied to the circumstance of the case or conclusion reached was perverse or…

From the wordings of section 47, it is clear that the following ingredients are not only necessary but inevitable: (a) there must be a dispute; (b)…