WEST AFRICAN ENTERPRISES LTD v WESTERN HARDWOOD ENTERPRISE LTD [1995-96] 1 GLR 155-176

Land law and conveyancing—Deeds and documents—Unstamped and unregistered document—Effect—Failure to stamp and register lease document—Whether document admissible in evidence—Whether provisions of Act 122 applicable to document—Land Registry Act, 1962 (Act 122)—Stamp Act, 1965 (Act 311).

Land law and conveyancing—Deeds and documents—Registration—Effect—Registration of instrument under Act 122 giving notice of fact of registration of instrument—Whether registration giving validity to transaction—Whether unstamped lease document not registered under Act 122 admissible in evidence—Duty of court in evaluating evidence—Whether trial judge justified in dismissing plaintiff's case solely on ground that lease document unregistered—Act 122—Act 311.