i. Whether the 1st Plaintiff is a legal person and whether it has the locus standi to institute this action. ii. Whether from the totality of facts before this Court, the 3rd Plaintiff’s claim is statute barred. iii. Whether the facts of this application discloses a cause of action against the Defendant. We shall now consider the issues seriatim; 1. Whether the 1st Plaintiff is a legal person and whether it has the locus standi to institute this action In order to find an answer to this question, we shall take an excursion into the meaning of the term “a legal person” The term legal personality is defined in the Black’s Law Dictionary 9th Edition as “the particular device by which the law creates or recognizes units to which it ascribes certain powers and capacity”. A legal person therefore is any person (human or non- human) that is clothed by law with legal rights and obligations including the capacity to enter into a contract, the right to sue and be sued. A legal person may either be a natural person or artificial or juridical. In the second instance, it is a creation of law. In all nascent system of law, legal personality whether natural or juridical is a requirement for bringing an action before a Court or tribunal. It is a pre-requisite for legal capacity. 14