Principle Archive

It is an elementary and fundamental principle that a judgment in personam is only binding on the parties to the lis. Accordingly, all parties who may…

A judgment creditor can enforce the judgment in the High Court. Where the decision is one of a dismissal, there is clearly nothing to enforce. The…

In Osho & Anor. v. Foreign Finance Corporation & Anor. (1991) 4 NWLR (Pt. 184) 157, 193 this court sets out requirements of valid lease as:…

Where parties who enter into a contract are expected to honour its terms, a party who induced the other party to enter into a contract, which…

When a term is made to commence upon the occurrence of a future contingent event, the test whether there is certainty of the commencement of the…

Where a date for the commencement of a lease is not specified but stated by reference to the happening of a contingency which is uncertain in…

Where a person has expended money on the land of another in the expectation, induced or encouraged, by the owner of the land that he would…

Allowing the new issues raised by the appellant in the three grounds of appeal would unnecessarily complicate the case by introducing entirely different legal character to…

Even if the appellant had sought for leave of this court to raise the issues she purportedly raised in the abortive grounds of appeal, I would…

In her purported appeal before this court the appellant attempted to raise the issues of lack of witness to the sale, lack of handing over of…

Appeals go from the Court of Appeal to this court and where any issue is being raised for the 1st time before this court the pre-requisite…

It is an elementary and primary principle of our judicial approach to the determination of issues that the appraisal of oral evidence and ascription of probative…