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• LAND LAW - Customary Right of Occupancy - Nature of customary right of occupancy under the Land Tenure System

  "By contrast, customary right of occupancy was a right or title that could be acquired only by a native of Northern Nigeria, or a native community. Such acquisition could only…

• LAND LAW - "Customary right of occupancy" - Meaning of Customary right of occupancy

  ONWEMWUNO AKO V. PETER EJEKWEMU (1976-LCER-1106-SC) “Now Section 4 of the Land Tenure Law declared the whole of the lands of Northern Nigeria, whether occupied or unoccupied, to be native…

• LAND LAW: Possession — Importance of Possession of Land

  "Possession in land matters, even ordinarily, is the backbone against all other claims to land if not accentuated by the owner of the land who has a better title. "PER…

• APPEAL - NATURE OF APPEAL - Nature of an appeal

  "...This failure has weighed heavily on the mind of the Court to accept those exhibits attached by the appellant which tend to show that this appeal is a continuation of…

• LAND LAW - Revocation of Right of occupancy - Whether Statutory right of occupancy can be revoked without the consent of the holder:

  "It is trite law that in any situation, as in the instant case, where a Statutory Right of Occupancy is granted to another private individual over a plot of land…