3PLR – CHRISTIANA UGU V. ANDREW EBINNI TABI
MADAM CHRISTIANA UGU V. ANDREW EBINNI TABI IN THE
PROPERTY, REAL ESTATE AND LAND CASES CONNECTED TO NIGERIAN CHILDREN AND WOMEN
CHILDREN AND WOMEN LAW & POLICY REPORTS WITH SUPPORT FROM AFRICAN MOTHERHOOD INITIATIVES
INDEX TO PROPERTY, REAL ESTATE AND LAND CASES CONNECTED TO NIGERIAN CHILDREN AND WOMEN
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Women/Children and Succession – Women/Children and Slavery – Validity of marriage contracted under native law and custom by a man who was subsequently taken abroad as slave and remarried in West Indies under Christian law – Legitimacy of child of the customary law marriage and right to inherit in the estate of Father inuring to wife of his Christian marriage – Relevant considerations – How treated |
| ADEKUNLE V. AYINKE | Women and land ownership – Claim for title over relying on documentary evidence and acts of ownership – Duty to prove case – Attitude of court to failure thereto |
| ADELEKE V. ASERIFA | Women and Real Estate – Interest in land – Defence of |
| ADELOWO V. AKINGBALA | Women and Real Estate/land – Defence of interest in land – Women and Justice Administration – Seemingly contradictory evidence of an 80 year old woman in a customary court record – Whether can be discountenanced by court in favour of a position favourable to her case – How treated |
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Protection of interest in property – Couple jointly claiming for specific performance of a contract of sale of land – Relevant considerations |
| ADEOYE V. JINADU | Women and Real Estate/Land – Application to set aside sale of house – Women and Justice Administration – Proceedings before the Registrar of Land – Need to take same seriously |
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Women and real estate – Women and justice administration – Assertion of title under customary law – Relevant principles – Cost of litigation – Order for a new trial (trial de novo) by appellate court – Effect of error committed by trial court in administering visit to locus in quo |
| ADESANYA V OTUEWU | Women and Property – Title of Woman over land purchased from a section of the family questioned |
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Women – Defence of interest in property and place of business – Right to fair hearing – Fundamental nature of concept in judicial proceedings thereof |
| ADETUTU V. ADEROHUNMU | Women and Real Estate/Land – Defence of interest in land – How treated |
| ADISA V. AKINYEMI | Marriage and its legal implications – Spouses – Request for joinder of husband in a suit against wife over land – When appropriate – How treated |
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ADUKE V ABIONA
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Women and Real Estate – Succession under a will – Bequest of family property to woman – Headship of family arising therefrom – Claim for account against a person who leased out parts of property to third party – Description of person as ‘stranger’ instead of family member – Legal effect thereof |
| AGBAJE V. JAMES | Women and Real Estate – Women in Business – Women and Justice Administration – Whether a tenancy held by a wife in her name can be given or reviewed by husband as her agent without her permission, consent or ratification – Need for proper book keeping in retail business – Effect on claim for and proof of special damages suffered – Destruction of woman’s shop with her wares inside causing – Attitude of court thereto |
| AGBONIFO V. AIWEREOBA AND ANOTHER | Women and ownership of Property – Possession of land under Bini Customary Law |
| AGBOOLA V. ABIMBOLA | Women and Land/Real Estate – Women and Justice Administration – Registration of title over land with Registrar of Titles – Where competing claims arises – Advantages of having a legal title instead of an equitable one – Relevant considerations |
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Women and Inheritance – Matrilineal devise of real estate via will – Property owned by deceased woman – Devolution of same to her children and heirs – Claim of her caretaker to ownership of a portion of the land – How considered |
| AJADA V OLAREWAJU | Women and Real Estate – Women and Customary law – Women in leadership – Women as recognized Head/Matriarch of whole villages in succession to their fathers – Implication for control over real estate/land – Defence of trespass over land – Duty of matriarchs to defend real estate held in trust for whole villages – Relevant considerations |
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AJALA V AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE CO. INC.
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Women and Justice administration – Deceased woman who died of ill-health – Effort by estate representatives to recover sums due on a life insurance policy made by deceased woman and for the benefit of two named daughters – Attempt by insurance company to shirk its duty to pay on technical grounds – Attitude of court thereto |
| AJILOWURA V DISU | Women and Real Estate – Protection of interest in property – Relevant procedural considerations |
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AJOKE v. AMUSA YESUFU OBA
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Women and Real Estate/Land – Difficulty of buying land by a woman – Exposure to unfair and arm-twisting treatment intended to extort more than agreed purchase sum or to deny/delay conveyance of property – Attitude of court thereto |
| AKANDE V ALAGBE | Women and property – Claim to possessory title in land |
| AKINBANBI AND OTHERS V. DANIEL AND OTHERS | Women and Real Estate/Land – Defence of interest in land – Acquisition of land held under customary law – Need to trace its title properly |
| AKINTOLA AND ANOR. V. SOLANO | Women and Real Estate/Land – Defence of interest in land – Dispute over title relating to Stool land or family land – Relevant considerations – Women and Justice Administration – Role of sound lawyers who can straddle both relevant facts and applicable |
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Women and Real Estate/Land – Defence of title to land – Women and Justice Administration – Repudiation of unfair customary law mediation outcomes – Women and Customary Law – Embrace of constitutional rights over mediated outcome of customary law authorities |
| ALADE V PAYNE | Women and Justice Administration/Property interests – Widows – Women and interest in land – Title to land – Widow’s right – Defeat of title to land inuring to widow due to some technical rule of evidence |
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ALAKE V HALID |
Women and Succession – Matrilineal inheritance – Property devised under a Will for the benefit of grandchildren arising from the estate of deceased son – How interpreted |
| ALFA KAMORU SALAWU V. MRS. Z. S. ADEBANKE & ANOR | Women and Real Estate/Property – Protection of interest in land – Relevant considerations |
| ALHAJA SAFURATU AWELE V. MONSOUR HABIB | Women and Real Estate – Land-holding – Women in land transactions – Relevant considerations |
| ALHAJI AMINU JUBRILLAH ABDULLAHI & ORS V. MRS. CHRISTIANA IYABO ADETUTU | Women and Real Estate – Protection of interest over land – Relevant considerations |
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ALHAJI IBRAHIMAH OF SEKONDI v.MAMA GARIBA AND OTHERS
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Women and Real Estate/Justice Administration – Women and polygamous family – Polygamous family with absent/later deceased husband/father – Where one of the wives was husband’s former slave domestic – Expropriation of family homestead by government in exchange for financial compensation and resettlement on new land – Where wife/former slave domestic deploys compensation and some fund sent by absent husband to develop properties and other assets – Whether such properties/assets are family estate owned by its members as a polygamous family – Whether any part can be identified as belonging to the industrious woman in spite of her history which can be inherited solely by her adopted child to the exclusion of the rest of the family |
| ALHAJI OSENI OLANIYAN & ORS V. CHIEF MRS. E. T. FATOKI | Women and Justice Administration/Property – Widows and Administration of estate – Protection of interests in land owned by deceased husband |
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ALOMASOJO V. IBRU
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Women and Real Estate/Land – Defence of interest in land – Relevant considerations – Women and Justice Administration – Judgment of a competent court relating to land – Whether can be changed or nullified through subsequent consent judgment at the instance of parties |
| AMADI Vs. ORISAKWE AND ORS. | Widow – Housing/Property – Security of home and property interest – Assertion and protection of interest in property acquired by deceased husband – Suit lost at High Court and Court of Appeal levels but won at the Supreme Court – Litigation costs |
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AMAWO V. A.G, NORTH-CENTRAL STATE
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Women and Real Estate/Land – Defence of interest over land arising from issuance of Certificate of Occupancy – Women and Justice Administration – Effect of existing court judgment over a new court proceeding relating to the same subject matter or parties |
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Women and Justice Administration – Refusal of access to bring an appeal to the Supreme Court due to non-compliance with Rules of the Court/technical grounds – Women and Real Estate/land – Defence of interest in land |
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Women in Business – Women and Real Estate – Defence of interest in Market stores and shops – Women and Justice Administration – Failure of legal representative to appear in court – Whether client should be punished for the negligence of lawyer by having her application for adjournment refused and her case dismissed |
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Women and Real Estate/Land – Women and Inheritance – Grant of land to an acknowledged female member of a family by family head – Right of daughter of said female member to inherit the land on her demise – Attempt of family to frustrate the inheritance – Attitude of court thereto |
| ARASE V. ARASE | Women and Real Estate/land – Acquisition of property with disputed titles – Women and Customary Law – Customary law of inheritance and succession to property under Bini Customary Law – Implication for women landholding opportunities |
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ARTHUR HANSEN HAMMOND V. UNITED AFRICA COMPANY LTD. AND OTHERS
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Women and Real Estate – Succession to property held under customary law by women – Relevance of mortgage citation signed by woman and her children alongside rival to the title towards the procurement of loan from the spouse of rival – How treated |
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