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NUMO ADJEI KWANKO II V. LEBANON SOCIETY, LANDS COMMISSSION AND LAND TITLE REGISTRY

(2016) JELR 68772 (SC)

Supreme Court  •  CIVIL APPEAL NO. J4/8/2015  •  29 Nov 2016  •  Ghana

Coram
ANSAH JSC (PRESIDING), ANIN YEBOAH JSC, BAFFOE- BONNIE JSC, GBADEGBE JSC, AKOTO- BAMFO (MRS) JSC

Judgement

JUDGEMENT

ANSAH JSC:

On 29-11-2016, this court dismissed the appeal brought against the judgment of the Court of Appeal dated 18 November 2013, and reserved our reasons for so ruling which we proceed to deliver now. The said Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal against the judgment of the High Court, Accra, given in favor of the plaintiff at the trial but the respondent in the appeal at the Court of Appeal and in this court.

Aggrieved by the judgment of the Court of Appeal, the first defendant appealed to this court on the grounds that:

“1 The judgment of the Court of Appeal is wrong because it completely flies in the face of the Land Title Registration Law and its underlying theory of getting rid of the necessity of investigating all over again the title of the vendor with its attendant doctrine of notice applicable under the land Registry Act each time the land or interest therein comes to be dealt with, once title to the land gets registered under the Land Title Registration Law.

2 The …

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