Legal effect and the Difference between an ordinary written letter by Landlord/ Attorney or his agent to wit-legal notices and notice filed and served through the Law court within the appropriate Jurisdiction on a tenant.
Tenancy proceedings covers more than 70% of magistrate Court matters every day but still most landlords, their agents/ Attorney continuously loss their cases in court notwithstanding that the tenant is in possession of their properties and never showed up throughout the entire proceedings. Regrettably these matters do last for more than 2years. Thus I will here pursue and proffer solutions which will aid the landlord to desist from these costly mistakes in sequel to the topic. Statutory Notices are to a tenancy proceedings the blood of the matter. It is very fundamental and once there is something wrong with these notices, the whole proceedings is bond to fail no matter how good the evidence were. See Pan Asian African Co. Ltd v. National Insurance Corp. (Nig) Ltd (1982) All NLR 229. These notices includes, the quit notice with its various durations (statutory notices are well detailed in my previous post on tenancy in Nigeria) and the 7 days Owners Intention to recover possession.