Legal Research Guides
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Popular Legal Principles
Frequently referenced legal principles and doctrines.
Administration of Estate
Abuse of the judicial process
setting aside - Judgment - It is the jurisdiction of the High Court to entertain this writ which is at the heart of the application before this Court...
Agreement
Administrative Law
Accounts - Savings
The genesis of this appeal is that the plaintiffs/respondents/ appellants (hereinafter plaintiffs) are the personal representatives of the late Comfort Mensah a Susu collector...
Arbitration
Property - Capacity - Res judicata
Moses Neequaye, was allocated the subject matter of the suit by the State Housing Corporation when his own house was wrecked by the earthquake that rocked Accra and its environs in 1939...
Wills
Madam Akua Attaa (deceased) by her last Will dated 11th August 1983 made several devises to the second defendant Akua Adomaa...
Intestate Succession Law
Distribution of the estate - ‘A declaration that upon the death intestate of Edward Kwabena Kwaisi Bentil on 1st April 2002 his estate must be distributed in accordance with the Intestate Succession Law 1985 (PNDC 111)...
Maternal and paternal Family
Caveat - This is an appeal against the unanimous decision of the Court of Appeal which had dismissed the appellants' appeal and upheld the decision of the trial High Court dismissing their claim for grant of letters of administration...
Letters of Administration
Administrators - The plaintiffs-respondents-respondents (hereinafter referred to as the plaintiffs) sued the defendant-appellant-appellant (hereinafter referred to as the defendant and the co-plaintiff-respondent-respondent in the High Court, Accra in an estate matter...
Judgment debt - Bail bonds
The facts of this appeal appear not to be in serious controversy. One Samuel Nii Otoo Ankrah commenced an action against one Joshua Kpakpo Allotey at the High Court, Accra...
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