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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 to prove radical title
Effect of the defeat of a party's title
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
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
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
What a party who relies on purchase of land to establish his title to land must prove
What a party whose claim of title to land is founded on customary grant must plead and prove
What a party who traces his root of title to a particular person or source must establish
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 must be proved to where title to land has been proved to be established in an identifiable person
What title to land connotes
Whether acts of ownership and possession can be considered where the pleaded title to land has not been proved
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 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 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 mere production of deed of conveyance automatically establishes the title to land
Whether production of registered documents automatically proves title to land
Whether the burden of proof lies on the defendant where the plaintiff is in possession and the defendant has admitted the fact
Whether there is a distinction between means of proving title to land and mode of acquisition of title in customary law
Whether title can be founded on an unregistered conveyance
Whether title can be lost through acquiescence
Whether two valid titles can co-exist simultaneously over the same property
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