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Ndawula v Tropical Bank & Another (Miscellaneous Application 3031 of 2024)

High Court · [2025] UGHCLD 47 · 2025 Application Granted AI-generated summary ↓ Download Pin to watchlist Add to matter
Jurisdiction
Uganda
Case Type
Application for consequential orders following prior ruling directing applicant to seek vesting order from Commissioner Land Registration
Decision
Land vested in applicant with order for delivery of certificate of title and discharge of mortgage

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Holding

The court granted a consequential vesting order for land comprised in LRV 4556 Folio 11 Block 13 Plot 1311 at Najjanakumbi in favor of the applicant, following an earlier ruling directing the applicant to first seek the vesting order from the Commissioner Land Registration. After the Commissioner deferred the matter back to court, the court found that the applicant had complied with procedural requirements and that no evidence was adduced by respondents to contest the application. The vesting order was issued together with an order directing the mortgagee bank to deliver the certificate of title with an instrument vacating the mortgage.

Outcome

Land vested in applicant with order for delivery of certificate of title and discharge of mortgage

Facts

The applicant purchased land comprised in LRV 4556 Folio 11 Block 13 Plot 1311 at Najjanakumbi from the late Mary Nakayiza on 1 September 2020 for UGX 500,000,000. The land was mortgaged to Tropical Bank (1st respondent) via instrument number KCCA-00064265. Due to loan default, the vendor with the bank's consent agreed to sell the land to settle the outstanding loan. The applicant paid the full purchase price into the vendor's bank account, took possession, renovated and rented out the property. However, the vendor died in September 2022 before executing transfer instruments. The applicant filed Miscellaneous Cause No. 332 of 2023 seeking a vesting order. Court ruled on 27 October 2023 that the applicant should first apply to the Commissioner Land Registration under section 167 of the Registration of Titles Act. The Commissioner deferred the matter back to court, prompting this application for consequential orders.

Issues

  1. Whether the Applicant is entitled to the consequential orders sought?

Orders

  • A consequential order is hereby issued vesting land comprised in LRV 4556 Folio 11 Block 13 Plot 1311 at Najjanakumbi in the applicant.
  • An order directing the 1st respondent to deliver the certificate of title to the land comprised in LRV 4556 Folio 11 Block 13 Plot 1311 at Najjanakumbi with an instrument vacating the said mortgage to the Applicant.
  • No order as to costs of the application.

Rules and key headnotes

Land & Property — Vesting Orders — Consequential Orders Following Compliance with Statutory Procedure
Where a court directs an applicant to first seek a vesting order from the Commissioner Land Registration under section 167 of the Registration of Titles Act and the Commissioner defers the matter back to court, the court may properly issue a consequential vesting order as the applicant has complied with the required statutory procedure.
Civil Procedure — Consequential Orders — Nature and Scope
A consequential order is one that follows naturally in terms of consistency and gives effect to a main judgment, being an order that makes the principal order effective and effectual or which is necessarily incidental to the principal order.
Civil Procedure — Uncontested Applications — Effect of Non-Response
Where respondents have been served with court process but fail to respond to an application or adduce any evidence to the contrary, the application and affidavit of the applicant stand uncontested.

Legislation cited (5)

Cases cited (2)

  • Samwiri Massa v Rose Achen (1978) HCB 297
  • Davanti Union Limited v Kipoi Nsubuga & 2 Others (Miscellaneous Cause No. 193 of 2019)

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