Legal Notes

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.

Christian and Other Marriages

Cap 127 Part 3 of Marriages Act, strictly monogamous whereas customary is potentially polygamous-i.e. subsequent marriage under ordinance should be to same woman else bigamy and strict formal statutory requirements should be complied mere intentions won’t suffice per Appiah (Decd) Yeboah v Appiah, Wiredu J though officiating marriage minister since formal requirements not followed merely

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Marriage

A contract, set aside only by decree of nullity, Hyde v Hyde (1866) Lord Penzance – Marriage as in Christendom is voluntary union for life of one man and one woman to exclusion of all others. But polygamy a legally recognizable marriage in Christendom although valid per the lex loci of such country. Matrimonial Causes

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