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Matovu v Exim Bank Uganda Limited & 4 Others (Miscellaneous Application 1933 of 2024) [2024] UGCommC 318 (8 October 2024)
The High Court held that mortgaged property may still be attached and sold in execution, and dismissed an objector application over land in Kisugu-Kabalagala.
Odiya v Lukwiya & 3 Others (Civil Appeal No. 53 of 2018) [2019] UGHC 69 (26 November 2019)
High Court appeal on disputed customary land ownership, possession, and trespass. The court applied prior appropriation and upheld the respondents’ possession save for an admitted 100 x 100 metre homestead strip.
Ogaba Vs Kilama (CIVIL APPEAL No. 0051 OF 2015) [2018] UGHCCD 63 (25 October 2018)
Neither party proved customary ownership of the land by adducing evidence of applicable customary rules or acquisition in accordance with those rules. The dispute was reduced to possessory rights, not ownership. The respondent was found to be in effective control and possession of the land, as evidenced by physical occupation and cultivation. Possession is good against all except someone with better title, which the appellant failed to prove. The trial magistrate erred in dividing the land without evidentiary basis and in recording evidence from persons who had not testified in court. The app…
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