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A Kenyan court dismissed both a mother's fraud claim and her daughters' trust claim over family land, leaving everyone's titles intact and n

Kenya's Environment and Land Court dismissed a landowner's appeal, confirming that court orders made without jurisdiction are void and canno

A Murang'a court revoked a grant that used dead beneficiaries' signatures and wrongly claimed the deceased fully owned co-shared Nairobi pro

A Kenyan court struck out a man's adverse possession claim against his own family, ruling family land is held under customary trust, not ope

A Kenyan court awarded a land buyer 4.9 acres by adverse possession, but dismissed the family's eviction suit because they had no grant for

A Kenyan court struck out a beneficiary's land suit because he lacked a Limited Grant of Letters of Administration before suing over a decea

Kenya's Environment and Land Court upheld a company's Kshs 5 million land purchase, ruling family customary trust claims cannot block a bona

A Kisumu court gave a man title to land he occupied for over 33 years after the seller refused to transfer it, ruling the owner's rights had

Kenya's Environment and Land Court barred lawyer Nelson Havi from acting against his former client's estate, ruling confidentiality outweigh

A Kenyan court dismissed a 25-year adverse possession claim because the buyers occupied the land with the seller's permission, which never r

A Siaya land court struck out an entire estate dispute because the defendant was sued on behalf of a deceased's estate without letters of ad

A Kenyan court cancelled ten land titles because a husband sold the family home without his wife's consent, and buyers failed to check prope

A Kenyan court confirmed a land-buying company's repossession was unlawful, but the new buyer kept the land and the family got nothing.

A Kenyan court cancelled a brother's land titles, ruling that being the registered owner does not defeat a family customary trust.

The Environment and Land Court dismissed an attempt to enforce a 2020 land mediation order because the applicants skipped mandatory executio

The Environment and Land Court in Meru ruled that family land held in trust must be split equally between the siblings.

A Kenyan court confirmed a family trust over ancestral land but refused to cancel the buyer's title because the family could not prove fraud

Kenya's Environment and Land Court confirmed magistrates cannot decide adverse possession claims, striking out a widow's land ownership suit

The Environment and Land Court in Kisumu dismissed a land appeal, confirming that once permission to occupy land is revoked, staying on make

A Kenyan court cancelled a land title bought from a beneficiary who sold his late father's land without letters of administration, restoring

The Environment and Land Court in Kisumu confirmed a family must vacate disputed Kisumu land within 360 days, but slashed damages for an 11-

A Kenyan court ruled that land sold before a grant of administration is void, so the widow-owner keeps the property and buyers must vacate.

The Court of Appeal confirmed that even an unwritten land sale, proven by conduct, can give the buyer's family ownership through a construct