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In a claim for declaration of title, where there is evidence before the trial court that the ownership of the land in dispute is in another…

The 1st-12th appellants have merely tried to make a mountain out of a mole hill concerning exhibits R and S. These were documentary evidence tendered by…

I do not consider exhibits R and S inadmissible in evidence but being documents not bearing the signatures of the makers, they should attract little or…

Where a party obtains possession of land from one person, he could not rely on title vested in another to defeat through a plea of jus…

This Court will not in the absence of special circumstances indicating obvious errors in the concurrent finding of fact by two lower courts allow the question…

It has been held that, in a claim for the ownership of land, the fact that the land in dispute is contiguous with other lands belonging…

It is now settled law that there are 5 ways in which ownership of land may be proved... They are: 1. Proof by traditional evidence... and…

There was the evidence called by the plaintiffs/respondents of their boundary owners. There was the fact that the plan of the land in dispute tendered by…

Where a plaintiff's evidence contains material contradictions on essential facts, such contradictions are fatal to the plaintiff's case and the court will not grant declaratory relief…

This is an appeal against the concurrent findings of the lower courts, which this court will not ordinarily interfere with.

The law is trite that the onus of proof is on the plaintiff throughout in an action of this nature; it never shifts except in a…

The law is sacrosanct that where title to land is said to have been derived by grant or inheritance, the pleadings must aver facts relating to…