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…Although Section 3(2) of the Magistrate’s Court Act confers countrywide jurisdiction to a resident magistrate’s court, in civil cases such jurisdiction is exercised subject to the limitation to the said court’s jurisdiction…

…I make no orders as to costs as the advocate is at liberty subject to the statute of limitation, to le before the High Court, his bill of costs for taxation by the taxing ocer or master as stipulated in law. 32.…

…called on for hearing outside the court, the court may dismiss the suit, and, in that event, either party may apply under rule 8 to have the dismissal set aside or the plaintiff may bring a fresh suit subject to any law of limitation…

…In Hyde and Another v Johnson 1836 2 Bine, No 776, the plainti in order to recover a debt barred by the Statute of Limitation, oered in evidence at the trial before the under sheri, a letter written by the defendant’s…

…I was held in this case that: “an acknowledgment signed by the agent of the debtor, will not retrieve a debt barred by the Statute of Limitation; it must be signed by the debtor himself.” 24.…

…A limitation may be either as to the kind and nature of the actions and matters of which the particular court has cognisance, or as to the area over which the jurisdiction shall extend, or it may partake of both these characteristics…