Documentary Evidence (136)
HELD:
"Documentary evidence always serves as a hanger from which to assess oral testimony.
HELD:
"Where the words of a document is unambiguous and clear, they must be given their plain and ordinary meaning, see the case of OLOJA V GOV. OF BENUE STATE (2016) 3 NWLR PT. 1499 PG. 217, RATIO 2.
HELD:
"When the law presumes a fact on the satisfaction of certain conditions, a party who seeks to take advantage of such presumption must satisfy the conditions.
HELD:
''The position of the law is that a distinction ought to be drawn between documents that are inadmissible on conditions and those that are inadmissible in any event.
HELD:
"The contention here is whether the document(s) in question need to be specifically pleaded.
HELD:
"It was also argued that Exhibit K was dumped on the lower Tribunal and its maker was never called to speak to it and thus it attracts no probative value.
HELD:
"When documents are tendered in evidence, their purport must be demonstrated in open Court by the party tendering them.
HELD:
"Section 84(1) and (2) Evidence Act provides:-