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LAND UNDER THE NIGERIAN LEGAL SYSTEM: OWNERSHIP, APPLICABLE LAWS AND DEFENCES OF GIFT, ACQUIESCENCE, INHERITANCE, ABANDONMENT, LACHES AND PLEDGE | Okoro Cyriacus, Esq.
By Okoro Cyriacus, Esq. , BSc, MSc, PGDE (Social Sciences), LLB, Legal Practitioner, Researcher and Writer Land in the Nigerian legal system is both a physical fact and a bundle of legal rights. Physically, it is the soil, the airspace above, and everything permanently attached to it. Legally, it is a species of property that carries with it rights of occupation, use, alienation, and exclusion. The maxim is old and remains true: cuius est solum, eius est usque ad coelum et ad inferos —he who owns the soil owns up to the heavens and down t…
THE LAWYER’S CRIME DIARY: THE OFFENCE OF CRIMINAL BREACH OF TRUST.
This offence is committed where the accused is entrusted with property, or has any dominion over property, and dishonestly misappropriates or converts that property to his own use in violation of any direction of law prescribing how such property is to be discharged. See Section 311 of the Penal Code ; Adeyanju v FRN (2020) LPELR-50243(CA) ; Adeniji v FRN (2021) LPELR-52818(CA) ; and Bari v Kano State (2021) LPELR-56176(CA) . INGREDIENTS The following ingredients must be proved: That the accused was entrusted with property or had dom…
