Actions (642)
HELD:
"A declaratory relief is a procedural device for ascertaining and determining the rights of parties or for the determination of a point of law.
ORIGINATING SUMMON(S) - When the adoption of the originating summons procedure will be inappropriate
HELD:
"A look at the reliefs claimed in the Originating Summons (pages 470 - 517 of the Record of Appeal, particularly @ 471, Volume 2), clearly reveals that they are all targeted at remedying the substitution of the 1st Respondent by the Appellant.
HELD:
"Originating Summons is one of the four ways of commencing actions in the Federal High Court.
HELD:
"In determining whether a reasonable cause of action is disclosed, the Court as rightly submitted by learned counsel, needs only to look at and examine the plaintiff's processes.
HELD:
"The phrase 'cause of action' has been variously defined in a plethora of cases by our Courts as the fact or combination of facts which give rise to a right to sue.
HELD:
"Now, the allegation of want of reasonable cause of action involves two interrelated elements.
HELD:
"I now return to the Customs and Excise related Statutes.
HELD:
"The law is settled that only persons known to law, be they natural or artificial, are capable of initiating and defending actions in Courts of law.
HELD:
"Locus standi denotes the legal capacity to institute proceedings in Court.