<p>OKUNOLA, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the judgment of the Oyo State High Court holden at Oyo presided over by Okeyode-Adesina J. delivered on 9/7/90 in Suit No. HOY/19/89.</p><p> The facts of this case briefly put were as follows:-</p><p> The appellants herein as plaintiffs sued the respondents herein as defendants claiming the following reliefs:</p><p> i. Declaration that under the Oyo Native Law and Custom, the plaintiffs are direct descendants of Kelebede-Ajele of Elepe Oke Compound, Iseke, Oyo.</p><p> ii. Declaration that under the Oyo Native Law and Custom the defendants are direct descendants of one Onifade of Ilogbo Compound, Akeetan, Oyo.</p><p> iii. Declaration that, prior to the promulgation of the Land Use Decree 1978, the plaintiffs as the direct descendants of Kelebeda-Ajele are under the Oyo Native Law and Custom, the rightful persons who are entitled to inherit land and property including the family compound/Kaa built by Kelebeda-Ajele (the family ancestor) at Keleb…</p>