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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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