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Causes of action available to a party who claims his goods are being wrongfully detained

Condition for a cause of action to arise

Definition of cause of action

Difference between accrual of right and accrual of cause of action

Effect of failure to state the date a cause of action arose

Effect of the absence of a cause of action

How a cause of action is constituted

How a good cause of action is determined

How cause of action is determined

How the cause of action is determined in an action commenced by originating summons

How to determine when the cause of action accrued

How to determine whether a cause of action survives the death of a party

How to determine whether a petition discloses a reasonable cause of action

How to determine whether a suit discloses a cause of action

Ingredients of cause of action

Legal significance of a cause of action

Meaning and elements of cause of action

Meaning and importance of cause of action

Meaning of a cause of action; what constitutes a reasonable cause of action

Meaning of cause of action and when it is said to accrue

Need for a party who wishes to come before the court to ventilate a cause of action to comply with the procedure set out in the enactment

Need for a petitioner to have an accrued cause of action

Need for a plaintiff whose cause of action depends on a statute to prove the statute

Need for an issue relating to cause of action to be determined first

On the duration of a cause of action

Order to be made where the alleged cause of action is bound to fail

Position of the law where a statement of claim discloses no cause of action

Position of the law where the plaintiff's statement of claim discloses a cause of action

Proper course to be taken by the trial court where the date averred in the statement of claim as to when the cause of action accrued is at variance with the statement of defence

The cause of action in libel

The difference between a cause of action and an issue

The importance of a cause of action accruing to a plaintiff before he issues his writ

The need for a cause of action to have arisen at the commencement of the action

The piecemeal litigation principle

The position of the law where a set of facts or cause of action gives rise to multiple causes of action, including a breach of a fundamental rights

The principle an action has been successfully brought by the plaintiff against the defendant in a court of record on the identical demand, and judgment has been recovered thereon, the cause of action is changed or merged into the matter of record and the inferior remedy is merged in the record

The principle that a plaintiff can only bring suit when a cause of action has accrued to him

The principle that cause of action is not retrospective

The principle that cause of action stops to run during the pendency of a case

The principle that in the determination of the cause of action, the plaintiff's claim must be examined

The principle that the cause of action is donated by the writ of summons and statement of claim

The principle that the cause of action must be revealed in the plaintiff's pleadings

The relevant document for determining when a cause of action arose

The rule a former judgment cannot operate as a bar to any subsequent proceedings between the same parties unless those proceedings are founded upon the same cause of action

The rule that a cause or matter can be gleaned by a close and careful examination of the pleadings filed by the parties

The rule that in matters concerning ownership of property, the cause of action survives the death of the disputing party

The rule that there must be a cause of action before an intending litigant can initiate any legitimate proceeding

What a plaintiff must do to succeed in a cause of action founded on a contract

What cause of action entails

What constitutes a land case

What the accrual of a cause of action entails

When a cause of action arises

When a cause of action arises and lapses

When a cause of action arises where an overdraft is granted by a bank

When a cause of action arises where there is a chieftaincy declaration

When a cause of action is said to have accrued

When a cause of action will survive the deceased plaintiff

When a pleading will be said not to disclose a cause of action

When a statement of claim can be said to disclose no cause of action

When a statement of claim will be said to disclose a cause of action

When the cause of action accrues

When the cause of action accrues in an action for breach of contract

When the cause of action arises in detinue

Where the cause of action arises in an action in libel

Whether a cause of action can arise without the existence of any injury or damages

Whether a cause of action for the recovery of loans can be said to have accrued before a demand is made

Whether a cause of action is determined by the defence

Whether a claim is determined by a cause of action

Whether a court called upon to decide whether or not a party has a cause of action can dwell on the strength of that party's case

Whether a fresh cause of action arises from time to time

Whether a party can bring the same cause of action twice

Whether a plaintiff can join causes of action

Whether a plaintiff who drops any cause of action in his statement of claim is deemed to have abandoned it

Whether a plaintiff who has no privity of contract with the defendant can establish a cause of action for breach of contract

Whether a statement of claim should be struck out because the case is weak where it discloses some cause of action

Whether an action for damages can be brought in place of an action for debt

Whether an action pertaining to ownership of land and breach of right of possession of land survives the deceased

Whether an action where the plaintiff is suing both grantor and grantee for alleged breaches of the constitution relating to the land constitutes a land case

Whether an intention to nominate a person for an election in the future can ground a cause of action

Whether cause of action and jurisdiction mean the same thing

Whether death extinguishes any existing cause of action in tort by one against the other

Whether extension of time to commence an action can lend credence to an expired cause of action

Whether facts, by themselves, constitute a cause of action

Whether it is relevant to consider the merit of the claim when determining the issue of cause of action

Whether the cause of action vested in either a natural person or an artificial person cab be lawfully subrogated one for the other

Whether the court can raise the issue of whether the writ and statement of claim discloses any cause of action

Whether the court can rely on the date put forward by the defendant as the date the cause of action arose because the pleading of the plaintiff is vague

Whether the court need to consider all the averments in the statement of claim in order to determine whether a cause of action has been disclosed

Whether the statement of defence is relevant in considering whether a cause of action exists

Whether the success or failure of a case is dependent on the cause of action

Whether there can be a cause of action in a chieftaincy matter where the Governor has not exercised his powers of recognition

Whether there is a duty on the plaintiff to file a counter-affidavit or a reply to the statement of defence to further deny or contradict the date on which the defendant in his affidavit or in their statement of defence alleged that the cause of action arose

Whether two actions may be brought in respect of the same facts where those facts give rise to two distinct causes of action

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