Section 66 Land Registration Law (LRL) Lagos State 2015

Section 66 of the Land Registration Law (LRL) of Lagos State 2015 provides as follows:

Unless the contrary is expressed in the relevant register, all registered land shall be subject to the following overriding interests –
(a) right of way, right of water and any other right subsisting at the time of registration under this Law;

(b) right of use, entry, search, compulsory acquisition;

(c) revocation and resumption conferred by any other law;

(d) agreements for sub-leases for any term less than five years where there is actual occupation under the sub-lease;

(e) any tax or rate for the time being declared by law to be a charge on land or buildings erected on the land;

(f) rights acquired or in the process of being acquired by virtue of any enactment relating to the limitation of actions or by prescription; and

(g) the rights of every person in possession or actual occupation of the land to which he may legally be entitled by virtue of such possession or occupation, except where inquiry is made of such person and the rights are not disclosed.

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