Kyomugisha v Kasegu (Miscellaneous Cause No. 10 of 2020)

Observed later treatment

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Holding

Where an estate administrator dies before completing transfers to beneficiaries, and a beneficiary has sold part of his share to a third party, the court may grant limited letters of administration under Succession Act s.221 to that beneficiary to enable registration on the mother title and completion of transfers to purchasers and other beneficiaries.

Outcome

Respondent appointed legal representative with limited letters of administration to complete estate transfers

Facts

The late Peter Kikomberwa Kasegu owned land comprised in LRV 1611, Folio 6 at Kitumu. His widow, Kasegu Dorothy Nyakamadi, was appointed administrator and distributed the estate to beneficiaries including the Respondent, a son of the deceased. The estate was surveyed and subdivided. The Respondent sold part of his allocated share to the Applicant under a sale agreement dated 21 December 2017. Before transfers to beneficiaries could be completed, the administrator died. The mother title remained in the name of the late Peter Kikomberwa Kasegu. The Applicant could not obtain a certificate of title for the land purchased from the Respondent because no legal representative had been appointed to complete the transfer process. No family member came forward to be appointed administrator.

Issues

1. Whether the Respondent can be appointed by the court as an administrator for purposes of concluding the transfer process of the share he sold to the Applicant.

Orders

• Application granted.
• Respondent appointed legal representative of the estate of the late Peter Kikomberwa Kasegu with limited letters of administration under Succession Act s.221.
• Limited letters granted specifically for purposes of having Respondent's names registered on land title LRV 1611, Folio 6 at Kitumu, Buruli, Plot No.10 Block 9, Masindi for conclusion of transfer to the Applicant and other beneficiaries.
• No order as to costs.

Rules and key headnotes

Legislation cited (4)

• Civil Procedure Act s.98
• Succession Act s.222
• Succession Act s.221
• Civil Procedure Rules O.52 rr.1 & 2

Cases citing this judgment (2)

How later Ugandan judgments in the Wakilii corpus have cited this case. Treatment labels come from Sequitur — Uganda’s citator — each backed by a verbatim span from the citing judgment, and are not an assertion that this case is, or is not, good law.

• Karungi Kasegu and Another v Kasegu and Another (Miscellaneous Application 55 of 2022)
• Kyomugisha v Kasegu (Miscellaneous Cause No. 10 of 2022)

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