Section 1 Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959

Section 1 of the Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959 is about Short title and application. It provides as follows:

(1) This Law may be cited as the Property and Conveyancing Law.

(2) This Law shall apply to land within the Region which is not held under customary law and property not held in accordance with customary law.

(3) As respects land held under customary tenure or property held in accordance with customary law, this Law, shall apply in any transaction if the parties agreed, or must from the nature of the transaction be presumed to have agreed, that the transaction should be exclusively regulated otherwise than by customary law.