KATSINA-ALU, JSC (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This appeal is from a judgment of the Court of Appeal, Enugu Division, delivered on 22 April 1993. The dispute is in respect of a parcel of land at Nkisi Ogbeozala inland Town Onitsha of which the plaintiff made a gift to the defendants as the named Trustees of a religious body known as The Light of Christ Praying Band Onitsha. Two years thereafter, the plaintiff sued the defendants claiming against them jointly and severally-
"(a) A declaration that the purported gift of the said property to the non-existent Light of Christ Praying Band is ineffectual, null and void and of no effect whatsoever;
(b) A declaration that the continued use of the said property by the 1st defendant as his personal property under the guise of the non-existent church organization is unlawful and derogates from the grant;
(c) An injunction restraining the defendants, their servants, agents, privies or as members of the aforesaid origination, from resorting …