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…XXXVI rule 3D of the Civil Procedure Rules – the Rules provides that: “3D (1) An application under section 38 of the Limitation of Actions Act shall be made by Originating Summons. (2) The summons shall be supported by an affidavit…

…Summons dated 28th October, 1991 which was subsequently amended on 13th February, 1992 and filed in the superior court on the following day and re-amended on 24th March, 1993 annexed to which was the requisite supporting affidavit…

…The application is supported by affidavit of the applicant sworn on 19/9/88 in which he depones inter alia that he has never been served with summons to enter appearance; that it is on 30/8/ 87 when court broker came to his…

…Mr Kassamali Mohamed Noorani does not in his affidavit mention the issue of service. Mr Kasmani for respondent however referred to return of service and said that service was proper.…

…The 3rd ground is that the cheque annexed to Mr Sonpal’s affidavit is for Kshs 1,000,000 whereas the plaintiff’s claim is for Kshs 1,795,595.85.…

…Ground 6,7 and 10 relate to lack of consideration and state (inter alia) that consideration for the payment of 1.5 million shillings which the plaintiff has in the supporting affidavit said was advanced to Harcom Printers…

…I have found that I cannot decide on such issues on affidavit evidence alone, I have to hear the oral evidence. ... I will now go ahead and hear oral evidence in this case.".…

…that the proceedings should for any reason be continued as if the cause had been begun by filing a plaint, it may order the proceedings to continue as if the cause had been so begun and may, in particular, order that any affidavits…

…The application is supported by the supporting Affidavit of the petitioner in which he deposed as follows; (i) THAT I am the Petitioner/Applicant herein hence competent to swear this Affidavit.…

…(iv) THATI reiterate in full the contents of my Affidavits respectively filed in response to the Affidavit sworn in support of the Petition herein, the.…

…The application is supported by the supporting Affidavit of the petitioner in which he deposed as follows; (i) THAT I am the Petitioner/Applicant herein hence competent to swear this Affidavit.…

…(iv) THATI reiterate in full the contents of my Affidavits respectively filed in response to the Affidavit sworn in support of the Petition herein, the.…

…Clearly there existed triable issues in this case not the least of which was as to the acreage of the land offered for settlement as the Affidavits and exhibited correspondence filed in the High Court in support of and against…

…However, the Affidavits and the letters exchanged between the representatives of the parties produced before the High Court during the hearing of the Notice of Motion disclosed a divergence of views about the acreage.…

…The appellant explained the grounds of his absence in support of his application in the affidavits he swore on November 30, 1981, and April 13, 1983.…

…The first affidavit was in support of the application filed by DM Mareka, advocate, but withdrawn on March 3, 1983, and the second affidavit was in support of the renewed application which the appellant himself filed in April…

…In a subsequent affidavit sworn by Mr. Mohamed on 7th October, 2004, he admitted, as contended by Mr.…

…In response to the matters deponed to above, an affidavit in reply was sworn by a Manager of Aberdare, Mr.…

…The application is supported by an affidavit sworn by Mr. Gitobu Imanyara, Advocate who appeared for the Applicant. There are several annexures to the affidavit. I have perused them all.…

…The respondents are relying on two replying affidavits, one sworn by the Chairman of the First Respondent and the other by the returning officer, the Second Respondent.…

…My hunch is that counsel for the Appellant who had not filed replying affidavits or grounds of opposition to those applications was not ready to argue them and instead of saying so he asserted that the matter had been stayed…

…Two affidavits in support of the motion inter alia deponed that the High Court of Kenya had no jurisdiction to entertain the two suits.…

…DELAYS IN COURTS OF BOMBAY By his affidavit the plaintiff’s director was asking the court to take judicial notice of a notorious fact which was within his own knowledge.…

…Mr P Nowrojee, assisted by Mr D Maanzo argued this application as per the eleven (11) grounds set out, supported by the 1st respondent’s affidavit and with reference to the authorities that both sides put forth.…

…Mr Mbaya concurred with Mr Nowrojee in most of the above, save to add that the petitioner in his affidavit seeking orders for substituted service had admitted that he had not served the petition in the 28 days from the day…

…The replying affidavit filed on behalf of the appellant in opposition to the respondent's application was sworn by it's sales manager, one Mungaithi.…

…It is a detailed affidavit and among the annextures to it are copies of the dishonoured cheques.…

…In his affidavits in support of the present application the advocate of the Applicants had deponed that in his view, the notice of appeal was not competent and could not be served on the Respondent, until it had been signed…

…In order to rule on this the Court will have to call for affidavits of means from each side stating the income and expenditure in terms of s 25 (2) of the Matrimonial Causes Act cap 152 Laws of Kenya.…

…He was taken through the pleadings and the affidavits with their annexures.…

…In his replying affidavit the defendant confirmed what he had put down in writing in his statement of defence. In paras 2 and 3 of that affidavit the defendant says: ‘2.…

…On May 10, 1979 the defendant’s advocate filed a summons for the setting aside of the ex parte judgment and filed an affidavit in support.…

…There is also an affidavit of the advocate briefed on behalf of the appellant dated July 25, 1979 for consideration.…

…The motion is supported by the affidavit of the first respondent (hereinafter referred to as “Chiaba”) in which he swears to the fact that he was not served personally or at all.…

…It is suprising therefore that the supporting affidavit says nothing of having seen these documents. It is absolutely silent.…