DOUBLE-DECKER MARRIAGE IN NIGERIA: ISSUES, PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS

ABSTRACT It has become a common practice in Nigeria for parties who intend to contract a statutory marriage to marry first under customary law before the solemnization of the statutory marriage. This practice may be explained by the fact that though Western civilization and culture have permeated Nigerian society, most people, even the most sophisticated … Read more

A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE CONFLICT SITUATIONS AND CHOICE OF LAWS IN THE NIGERIAN LEGAL SYSTEM AND OTHER LEGAL SYSTEMS

ABSTRACT Private International Law is that part of a law of a country which deals with cases having foreign element and usually comes into operation whenever courts are seized with such cases.The term ‘foreign element ’ means any system of law prevailing outside the lex fori, that is, the local law of the place where … Read more

EGBASE V ORIAREGHAN (1985); EFFECT OF NON EST FACTUM ON CONTRACT

  TABLE OF CONTENTS COVER PAGE………………………………………………………………………. i CERTIFICATION PAGE……………………………………………………………. iii ABSTRACT…………………………………………………………………………… iv TABLE OF CONTENTS……………………………………………………………… v DEDICATION………………………………………………………………………… vii ACKNOWLEDGMENT………………………………………………………………. viii TABLE OF CASES……………………………………………………………………. ix TABLE OF STATUTES……………………………………………………………….. xii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS…………………………………………………………. xiii CHAPTER 1 GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.0.0: INTRODUCTION……………………………………………………………….. 1 1.1.0: BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY…………………………………………….. 3 1.2.0: OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY………………………………………………….. 3 1.3.0: FOCUS OF THE … Read more

EXCESS OF INJUNCTION IN NIGERIA JUDICIAL SYSTEM

ABSTRACT Injunction serves as an order of equitable nature restraining the person to whom it is directed from performing a specified act or in certain exceptional circumstances cases requiring him to perform a specified act. Injunctions are judicial remedy by which a person is ordered to refrain from doing or to do a particular act … Read more

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