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WHEN A MEMEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BECOMES AN AGREEMENT ENFORCEABLE IN LAW BY S.O. GIWA ESQ. a.k.a pentalk (Ibadan based Legal Practitioner) giwa_pentalk@yahoo.com 08035224192 It is no gainsaying that ‘Memorandum of Understanding’ is a common document which many Nigerians including companies and organizations often use with a view to creating …
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As an electric current passes through a wire so as the use of ubiquitous process christened ‘PARTICULARS OF CLAIM’ or ‘CLAIM’ in commencing civil proceedings in Magistrate Courts keeps passing from one lawyer to another without an exemption of new wigs. This ubiquitous practice of commencing civil proceedings with a process usually christened ‘PARTICULARS OF …
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Mere sexual congress or a sexual relationship, however, prolonged, and whatever number of children results from the union, is not recognized as marriage; it remains what it is, esteemed concubinage. According to Sowemimo J, in Re Proposed Marriage between Ayorinde and Aina [1964] Lagos LR Pg 71. His Lordship submitted thus: “There is no doubt …
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Legal decisions and authorities have been consistent on how to prove the validity or otherwise of a customary law marriage. The bride price must be paid and the bride must be handed over to the groom ;all this must be done in the presence of witnesses. Mere sexual congress or sexual relationship, however, prolonged, and …
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Prefacing each succeeding paragraph to the opening paragraph of an affidavit by the word ‘that’ in Nigeria is now an aged long tradition and ubiquitous practice by many Nigerians- legal practitioners and non-legal practitioners. No affidavit is regarded as good without the word ‘that’ starting each succeeding paragraph to the opening paragraph of an affidavit. …
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ndeed, life is not about learning how to dance in the rain but about learning how to face the storm. Where there is a will, there is a way. Some desperate and nocturnal forces whom we contracted to develop our firm website for us; developed certain demon on how to ruin our site that has …
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