Legal Notes are summaries of important legal concepts, principles, and rules. They provide a quick reference guide for lawyers, law students, and legal professionals to understand complex legal issues. Here are some Legal Notes on various topics:
– Contract Law: A contract is a legally binding agreement between two or more parties. Essential elements include offer, acceptance, consideration, intention to create legal relations, and capacity to contract.
– Tort Law: Tort is a civil wrong that causes harm or injury to another person. Key concepts include negligence, duty of care, breach, causation, and damages.
– Criminal Law: Criminal law deals with offenses against the state or society. Important concepts include mens rea (guilty mind), actus reus (guilty act), and strict liability.
– Family Law: Family law governs relationships between family members. Key concepts include marriage, divorce, child custody, child support, and spousal maintenance.
– Property Law: Property law deals with ownership and possession of property. Important concepts include real property, personal property, freehold, leasehold, and easements.
– Evidence Law: Evidence law governs the admissibility of evidence in court. Key concepts include relevance, reliability, hearsay, and privilege.
– Company Law: Company law regulates the incorporation, management, and winding up of companies. Important concepts include incorporation, shares, directors, and shareholders.
– Tax Law: Tax law governs the imposition and collection of taxes. Key concepts include income tax, capital gains tax, value-added tax, and tax deductions.
We normally define a family to include a group of people who are related by blood. This definition admits of persons who are not blood related but may be recognized as being part of a family. A family may be formed by birth, by adoption (A formal public declaration by one, adopting a person as […]
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It has been a matter of public debate, as to whether Achimota SHS was right or otherwise in its decision refusing admission to some Rastafarian students. When I first read the story, this was what I sincerely expected to be reaction of the authorities of Achimota SHS: “Dear Rastafarian students, we are aware that you
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As already discussed under the Patrilineal System of Inheritance, a family is a group of people either or not related by blood. The members of the Patrilineal families and Matrilineal families are mutually exclusive, thus a person cannot be a member of both families. Members outside the patrilineal family, by deduction and to some extent
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A Christian Marriage is a monogamous marriage, meaning it can validly exist between one man and one woman only. Thus, there cannot be in existence a polygamous marriage between a man and two or more women and at the same time be recognized as a valid marriage in Christendom or Christianity. For such a polygamous
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PREAMBLE We the people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Having firmly and solemnly resolve, to live in unity and harmony as one indivisible and indissoluble sovereign nation under God, dedicated to the promotion of inter-African solidarity, world peace, international co-operation and understanding And to provide for a Constitution for the purpose of promoting the
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PREAMBLE IN THE NAME OF THE ALMIGHTY GOD We the People of Ghana, IN EXERCISE of our natural and inalienable right to establish a framework of government which shall secure for ourselves and posterity the blessings of liberty, equality of opportunity and prosperity; IN A SPIRIT of friendship and peace with all peoples of the
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Deceit Defendant must make a fraudulent misrepresentation-derry v peak. A statement of opinion would be actionable when indeed that opinion is not held-west London commercial bank v kitson. The defendant’s directors of a company accepted a bill of exchange and represented to one Ashdown that by the private acts of parliament by which the company
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