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Joseph Lutwama and Others v Yvonne Properties Ltd and Others (Miscellaneous Application No. 2188 of 2025; Miscellaneous Application No. 2430 of 2025)

High Court · [2026] UGCOMMC 37 Application Granted AI-generated summary ↓ Download Pin to watchlist Add to matter
Jurisdiction
Uganda
Case Type
Consolidated objector applications challenging attachment of property in execution proceedings arising from civil suit and consent judgment
Decision
Property released from attachment and execution stayed

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Holding

Property attached in execution must be released where the objector proves they were the registered proprietor and in possession on the date of attachment, and the judgment debtor had no legal right to pledge the property as security. Judgment debtors cannot validly pledge land registered in another person's name when neither party to the consent judgment nor in possession of the property.

Outcome

Property released from attachment and execution stayed

Facts

Judgment creditors Yvonne Properties Ltd and Odoy Job Henry obtained default judgment against judgment debtors Joshua Mukalazi, Daudi Kiwutta Kizito and Erina Nankya in Civil Suit No. 221 of 2018. The parties entered a consent settlement for payment of UGX 166,740,000, under which the judgment debtors deposited a title deed for land comprised in Block 207 Plot 802 registered in the name of Edith Kizito as security. The consent stated the judgment debtors had good title and full authority to stake the property. At execution, the property was attached. The objectors, including registered proprietor Edith Kizito and four neighbours claiming possessory interests through their late father's kibanja, challenged the attachment. Kizito was neither party to the civil suit nor signatory to the consent settlement. She had been registered proprietor since 10th April 1975. The objectors stated they had been in possession for over 20 years.

Issues

  1. Whether the property comprised in Kyadondo Block 207 Plot 802 at Kanyanya should be released from attachment in execution proceedings.
  2. Whether the judgment debtors had authority to pledge property registered in the name of a third party as security for a consent judgment.

Orders

  • Applications allowed.
  • Property comprised in Kyadondo Block 207 Plot 802 at Kanyanya with its developments released from attachment/execution.
  • Execution by way of attachment and sale of property comprised in Kyadondo Block 207 Plot 802 at Kanyanya stayed.
  • Costs awarded to the objectors.

Rules and key headnotes

Civil Procedure — Objector Proceedings — Burden of Proof
Under Order 22 Rule 56 of the Civil Procedure Rules, an objector challenging attachment of property must adduce evidence to show that at the date of attachment they had some interest, whether legal or equitable, in the attached property.
Civil Procedure — Objector Proceedings — Test for Release of Property
In objector proceedings the question to be decided is whether on the date of attachment the judgment debtor or the objector was in possession, and where the court is satisfied the property was in possession of the objector, whether the objector held it on their own account or in trust for the judgment debtor. The sole question is one of possession of and some interest in the property.
Civil Procedure — Execution — Release of Attached Property
Under Order 22 Rule 57 of the Civil Procedure Rules, where the court finds that property was not in possession of the judgment debtor at the time of attachment, the court shall make an order releasing the property.
Land & Property — Execution Against Land — Authority to Pledge
Judgment debtors who are neither registered as owners nor in possession of property have no legal right to pledge that property as security in a consent judgment. Property pledged without lawful authority is not liable to attachment in execution.
Civil Procedure — Execution — Property Liable to Attachment
Under section 44(1) of the Civil Procedure Act, property liable to attachment in execution of a decree for payment of money is movable or immovable property belonging to the judgment debtor, or over which the judgment debtor has disposing power which they may exercise for their own benefit, whether held in their name or by another in trust for them or on their behalf.

Legislation cited (5)

Cases cited (4)

  • Bukonko Traders & Transport Bus Company and Another v Sempala Ronald (Civil Suit No. 167 of 2016)
  • Lucy Oker Lagol and Others v Bonga Ronald Okech and Another (Civil Appeal No. 0119 of 2019)
  • David Muhenda and 3 Others v Margaret Kamuje (Supreme Court Civil Appeal No. 9 of 1999)
  • Muscle Construction Limited and Another v Muscle Group Limited (Miscellaneous Application No. 1256 of 2024)

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Joseph Lutwama and Others v Yvonne Properties Ltd and Others (Miscellaneous Application No. 2188 of 2025; Miscellaneous Application No. 2430 of 2025) [2026] UGCommC 37 (20 January
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