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HIGH COURT OF THE FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY, ABUJA. PROCEDURAL STEPS
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OIL EXPLORATION ACTIVITIES AND AGRICULTURE/FOOD PRODUCTION:- Damage to economic and cash crops, fish ponds and lakes – Claim for compensation – Determination of victims entitled to compensation – Relevant considerations |
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| AGRICULTURE AND FOOD LAW:- Claim of compensation for damage to pond – How proved | |
| EMMANUEL EGWUMI V. THE STATE
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CRIME AND IMPLICATION FOR AGRICULTURE AND EMPLOYMENT:– Farmer brutally murdered – Evidence of farm-hands employed by deceased – Whether deemed evidence of tainted witnesses – How treated |
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AGRICULTURE AND JUSTICE ADMINISTRATION – Loss of agricultural harvest due to breach of contract for delivery of transportation and logistics vehicle – Attitude of Courts to subsequent claim for compensation for loss of agricultural harvest due to breach of contract after a being awarded in a prior suit repayment for money paid on the contract – Proper way of bringing same |
| HAMMOND V ALLEN AND OTHERS
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AGRICULTURAL HOLDING/ESTATE – Lease agreement for farm and its fixed equipment – Where agreement incorporates statutory clause impelling landlord to effect extensive damage to property and farm equipment – How treated |
| ASSOCIATION DEVOTED TO AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS:– Enforcement of ordinary rights of members – Attitude of courts thereto | |
| J. ADJARHO v. MRS G. AGHOGHOVWIA AND OTHERS |
PLANTATION FARMING – Rubber – Customary land law rules relating to sale of family land – Where not satisfied with respect to sale of rubber plantation – Implication for investors |
| CASH CROP FARMING – FINANCING:- Cocoa production – Loan facility to aid production – Default arising therefrom – How treated | |
| JOSHUA GUTING v. TUNYANG DAVWANG
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FARM ASSETS – LAND:- Dispute over farmland – Implication for food security and productivity – Duty of court to resolve same – How treated FARMING OPERATIONS:– Constitutional backing – Section 172 of the Constitution – Whether allows every category of public officer to engage in farming |
| AGRO-COMMODITY PURCHASE:– Agency agreements for purchase of rubber- Commission payment based on discretion of principal – Enforceability | |
| K. MAERTSCH & ORS V. OLA BISIWA
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FISHING AND MARITIME TRANSPORTATION:- High sea Fishing – Fishing nets operated/manned by workers at the break water before Escravos damaged by ship which Captain negligently left its normal Navigational Route – Action for damages for destruction of fishing nets by a vessel – How treated |
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AGRICULTURE AND PUBLICLY OWNED FOREST RESERVES:– Access to farm land – Grant of a government owned reserve to persons for residency and farming purposes – Nature of rights over land created – Whether ownership any of them to assert title – Implications for agricultural practices |
| LENGBE V. IMALE
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AGRICULTURAL/FARM ASSETS – LAND:- Access to land for kola farm – Law relating Family property – Allotment or partition of – Legal implication for protection of farm land from trespass |
| FARM ASSETS – LAND:- Claim for declaration as to ownership of cocoa farm – Applicable principles of land law – How treated | |
| MAIGARI v BIDA
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AGRICULTURE AND RELIGION – ISLAM – DISPUTE OVER FARM LAND:- Islamic law procedure in resolution of matters relating to recovery of farmland entrusted by owner to a another – Where both parties are Muslims – Whether matter can be decided by Islamic court – Relevant considerations |
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