Prohibited Splitting Of Claims, Prescription In Litigation And Land Ownership, Fencing Of Land, And Principles Of Awarding Costs In Namibian Courts

Prohibited Splitting of ClaimsThe Magistrates Courts Act disallows splitting of claims by providing that a substantive claim that goes beyond jurisdictional limits of the Magistrates Courts ought not to be split with the aim of recovering the same in more than one suit, especially where the litigants to all such suits would be similar and that the issues of determination in such suits would also be similar. The Act recognizes jurisdiction thro…