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Effect of a claimant claiming several ambiguous bases of title
Effect of a person building on land without a valid title to the land
Effect of a title to land granted under a non-existent law
Effect of failure of the defendant to prove a grant after the burden shifted to him
Effect of failure of the parties to prove better legal title to disputed land
Effect of failure to prove radical title
Effect of the defeat of a party's title
Factors to be considered by the courts in deciding who holds title to land
Facts that a party claiming title to land by inheritance must plead and prove
How title to land can be proved
How to determine whether title to land is in issue
Legal position of a landlord in de jure possession with respect to property occupied by a tenant
Length of time of exercising acts of ownership which is sufficient to found title to land
Meaning of title
Nature of acts of ownership and possession that will support a claim for title to land
Nature of title acquired by a purchaser who paid and took possession by virtue of a registrable instrument
Need for traditional history to be given where title is derived by grant or inheritance
On whom lies the burden of proof in a claim for declaration of title to land
Position of the law on how title to land was proved in Benin before the Land Use Act
Position of the law where a party admits that title to certain lands which he claims originally vested in a rival party/counter-claimant
Position of the law where neither of the parties has successfully proved title to land but one of them is found in possession
Position of the law where neither the plaintiff nor the defendant can establish title
Requirements which a party claiming title to land must prove
The necessary ingredients of averments for a claim for title
The position of the law where a plaintiff pleads a particular root of title and fails to prove the title as pleaded
The presumption raised where a plaintiff fails to prove title to the land in dispute
The principle that claims for possession and trespass must be granted to a party who has proved title to the land
The principle that title to land is ascribed to the party with established a better ownership
The principle that where the pleaded title to land has not been proved, it will be unnecessary to consider acts of ownership and possession
The principle that where two parties claim to be in possession of land, the law ascribes ownership to the one with a better title
The role of possession in proof of title to land
The rule that a party has satisfied the court as to his title to land in dispute, the court need not inquire into the title of his predecessor-in-title
The rule that title to land presupposes exclusive right to the land in dispute
The rule that when a person’s title is in issue, he has a duty to either join his grantor or bring his grantor to give evidence in his favour
Ways of proving title to land where a party's traditional evidence is rejected
What a party claiming title and possession must prove
What a party who relies on purchase of land to establish his title to land must prove
What a party who traces his root of title to a particular person or source must establish
What a party whose claim of title to land is founded on customary grant must plead and prove
What a person claiming title to land must prove
What a plaintiff relying on traditional evidence in proof of declaration of title to land must establish
What constitutes a good title
What must be proved to where title to land has been proved to be established in an identifiable person
What the pleadings must aver where title to land is derived either by grant, sale, conquest or inheritance
What title to land connotes
Whether a deed of conveyance or certificate of occupancy without proof of proper title confers any or better title on a party
Whether a defendant is automatically entitled to judgment where the plaintiff fails to prove title to land
Whether a document that has been expunged can support a claim for title
Whether a good title must be documentary
Whether a judgment or an arbitration award can confer title to property on a litigant
Whether a party can rely on possession where the opponent has shown a better title
Whether a party in adverse or encumbered possession can claim a better title to a later true holder of the title
Whether a party who failed to prove title to land can secure forfeiture of the rights of occupation-possession of the property
Whether a party who seeks an injunction put his title to the land in issue
Whether a person who claims absolute title to land will lose if he proves anything less
Whether a person who had no right to land can acquire title to it by the bare fact that he has secured the concurrence of the minister
Whether a person who signs a land document as a witness of a party who is described as owner of property can subsequently deny the title of that owner
Whether a plaintiff must prove title in all actions relating to land
Whether a site plan vests title to land in any person
Whether a stranger can acquire title to land under customary law by farming on it
Whether acts of ownership and possession can be considered where the pleaded title to land has not been proved
Whether an unregistered indenture can be used to prove title to land
Whether both the plaintiff and defendant can establish title to the land in dispute
Whether evidence of traditional history that is not contradicted and found to be cogent is sufficient to support a claim for declaration of title to land
Whether fraudulent conduct can be the basis for a valid title
Whether mere production of deed of conveyance automatically establishes the title to land
Whether production of registered documents automatically proves title to land
Whether receipts, building permits, building plans, title documents, etc confer titles on their holders
Whether registration of the land title in the name of a company before its incorporation amounts to fraud
Whether the burden of proof lies on the defendant where the plaintiff is in possession and the defendant has admitted the fact
Whether the court should believe the evidence of a grantor where rival parties claim a property
Whether the fact that a party holds a registered indenture guarantees him title to the property in respect of which he holds the indenture
Whether the party claiming a better title than the person in possession should be made the plaintiff to the action
Whether the presence of squatters is evidence that the land is encumbered
Whether the vendor must join his purchaser to prosecute an action for title or to defend that title; effect of failure to do so
Whether there is a distinction between means of proving title to land and mode of acquisition of title in customary law
Whether there is a need to prove root of title where there is no dispute that the plaintiffs own the land
Whether title can be founded on an unregistered conveyance
Whether title can be lost through acquiescence
Whether title in a farm will be made in favour of a person who cultivated the farm for his master
Whether title to land can be acquired during the pendency of an action
Whether title to land passes on the signing of the indenture by the grantor or on registration
Whether two valid titles can co-exist simultaneously over the same property
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