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Effect of failure of the parties to prove better legal title to disputed land

Factors to be considered by the courts in deciding who holds title to land

Meaning of title to land

On whom lies the burden of proof in a claim for declaration of title to land

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 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 person claiming title to land must prove

What constitutes a good title

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 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 an unregistered indenture can be used to prove title to land

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 both the plaintiff and defendant can establish title to the land in dispute

Whether fraudulent conduct can be the basis for a valid title

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 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 there is a need to prove root of title where there is no dispute that the plaintiffs own the land

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 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

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