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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 - Right of Occupancy - Nature of a right of occupancy

  "The title to use and occupy land under the Land Tenure Law was called the right of occupancy. This right was divided into two, namely, statutory right of occupancy and…

• 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 - 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…

• LAND LAW - Proof of title to land - Identity of land - Duty of the Plaintiff to show the court clearly the area of land to which his claim relates

  OKON UDOFE V. CHIEF AKPAN AQUAISUA (1973-LCER-8065-SC) “It must be remembered, however, that apart from the issue of estoppel, the learned trial Judge disbelieved the plaintiffs/appellants both as to the…