Judgements Tags: Women and Children

  IN RE EFFIONG OKON ATA -(deceased) 14TH MARCH, 1930 3PLR/1930/2 (PC)     OTHER CITATIONS   BEFORE: BUTLER LLOYD, J.   BETWEEN ABASSI OKON EKPAN -Petitioner-Plaintiff V. CHIEF ELIJAH HENSHAW AND OKOHO EKENG ITA -Caveators-Defendants   REPRESENTATION Ephraim for the petitioner-plaintiff Davies for the caveators-defendants   MAIN  ISSUES ESTATE ADMINISTRATION: – Administration of an intestate estate – Personal property owned by a slave – Effect of abolition of slavery. CHILDREN AND WOMEN LAW: Women and Slavery – Women and Succession/Inheritance – Succession to the properties of slave born person – Right of sister of a slave-born person against former […]

ABUDU T. IJAOBA AND OTHERS V. LA SOCIETE COMMERCIALE O’AFRICAINE DIVISIONAL COURT, COLONY AND PROTECTORATE, LAGOS 5TH FEBRUARY, 1935 3PRL/1935/6 (DC-CPL) OTHER CITATIONS CWLR (1935) 3       BEFORE: BUTLER LLOYD   REPRESENTATION Williams for the plaintiffs. Abayomi for the defendant.   OTHER ISSUE[S] REAL ESTATE LAW:- Equitable Mortgage by deposit of title deeds as guarantee of employee’s indebtedness to Mortgagees – Retention of title deeds by Mortgagees after demand made and employee not indebted – Subsequent damage suffered by Mortgagors­–Liability of Mortgagees – Measure of Damages. CHILDREN AND WOMEN LAW: – Succession to Property and Estate Management – […]