Order 10
Place of Instituting and of Trial of Suits
1. All suits relating to land, or any mortgage or charge thereon, or any other interest therein or for any injury
thereto and also all actions relating to personal property distrained or seized for any cause, shall where the land is
situated, or the distress or seizure took place in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja be commenced and
determined
in
the
High
Court
of
the
Federal
Capital
Territory,
Abuja.
2. All actions for recovery of penalties and forfeitures and also all actions against public officers, shall where the
cause of action arose in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, be commenced and tried in the High Court of the
Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
3. All suits for specific performance, or upon the breach of any contract, shall where the contract ought to have
been performed or where the defendant resides or carries on business in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, be
commenced and determined in the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
4. (1) All other suits shall where the defendant resides or carries on business or where the cause of action arose
in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, be commenced and determined in the High Court of the Federal Capital
Territory, Abuja.
(2) If there are more defendants than one resident in different Judicial Divisions, the suit may be commenced in
any one of the Judicial Divisions; subject, however, to any order which the Court may, upon the application of
any of the parties, or on its own motion, think fit to make with a view to the most convenient arrangement for the
trial of the suit.
5. In case any suit is commenced in any other Judicial Division than that in which it ought to have been
commenced, it may, notwithstanding, be tried in the Judicial Division in which it has been so commenced, unless
the Court otherwise directs, or the defendant pleads specially in objection to the jurisdiction before or at the time
when
he
is
required
to
state
his
answer
or
to
plead
in
such
cause.
6. No proceedings which may have been taken previously to such plea in objection shall be in any way affected
thereby; but the Judge shall order that the cause be transferred to the Judicial Division to which it may be proved
to his satisfaction to belong, or, failing such proof, that it be retained and proceed in the Court in which it has
been commenced, and the order shall not be subject to appeal.
Order 11
Parties
A. General
1. All persons may be joined in one action as plaintiffs in whom any right to relief (in respect of or arising out of
the same transaction or in a series of transactions) is alleged to exist whether jointly, severally, or in the
alternative, where, if such persons brought separate actions, any common question of law or fact would arise;
and judgment may be given for such one or more of the plaintiffs as may be found to be entitled to relief, for
such
relief
as
he
or
they
may
be
entitled
to,
without
any
amendment:
Provided that if, upon the application of any defendant, it appears that the joinder may embarrass any of the
parties or delay the trial of the action, the Court or a Judge in chambers may order separate trial, or make such
other order as may be expedient in the circumstances.
2. Where an action has been commenced in the name of the wrong person as plaintiff, or where it is doubtful
whether it has been commenced in the name of the right plaintiff, the Court or a Judge in chambers, may, if
satisfied that it has been so commenced through a bona fide mistake, and that it is necessary for the
determination of the real matter in dispute so to do, order any other person to be substituted or added as plaintiff
upon such terms as may be just.
3. (1) All persons may be joined as defendants against whom the right to any relief is alleged to exist, whether
jointly, severally, or in the alternative.