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111<br />

Issue no.2 on whether or not the judgment of the court has satisfied the basic<br />

requirements of a valid judgment under the law and Sharia. First and fourth<br />

grounds of appeal attacked the judgment of the lower court as being wrong both in<br />

law and Sharia but no proper particulars of error or wrong was given by the<br />

appellant yet it is the duty of this court to examine the whole proceedings of the<br />

lower court including the judgment with a view to determining their compliance or<br />

otherwise with both substantive and adjectival laws. What a judgment shall<br />

contain was spelt out by rules of practice and procedure of the lower court. Order<br />

X1V rule 79 of the Cadi Courts Civil Procedure Rules has made it a mandatory<br />

requirement for a valid judgment to contain the principles of law and evidences<br />

proffered before the court to form the basis upon which the judgment must be<br />

grounded. The order reads thus:<br />

Ord. R. 79. The judgment of the court shall contain principles and<br />

evidences on which such decisions are grounded.<br />

Judgment is a court's final determination of the rights and obligation of the<br />

parties in a case, it includes an equitable decree and any order from which an<br />

appeal lies. Under Islamic law it necessarily affirms or denies that such a duty or<br />

such liability rests upon the person against whom the aid of the law is invoked. As<br />

earlier stated the ingredients which are indispensable for a valid judgment under<br />

Sharia and which the absence of any one of them renders the judgment invalid are<br />

six in number, namely:<br />

''The judge, the plaintiff, the defendant, the subject matter in dispute<br />

and the applicable law leading to the judgment ( Qur'an or Sunnah or<br />

the Consensus) and lastly the procedure which such judgment has<br />

attained''

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