Category: Nigeria


  • Section 63 Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959 Section 63 of the Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959 is about Joint tenancies. It provides as follows: (1) Where a legal estate is beneficially limited to or held in trust for any personsas joint tenants, the…

  • Section 62 Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959 Section 62 of the Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959 is about Meaning of the statutory trusts. It provides as follows: For the purposes of this Law land held upon the “statutory trusts” shall be heldupon the…

  • Section 61 Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959 Section 61 of the Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959 is about Effect of future dispositions to tenants in common. It provides as follows: (1) An undivided share in land shall not be capable of being created…

  • Section 60 Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959 Section 60 of the Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959 is about Saving for additional or larger powers under settlement. It provides as follows: (1) Nothing in this Law precludes a settlor from conferring on the trustees…

  • Section 59 Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959 Section 59 of the Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959 is about Saving for and exercise of other powers under settlement. It provides as follows: (1) Nothing in this Law shall take away, abridge, or prejudicially affect…

  • Section 58 Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959 Section 58 of the Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959 is about Management of land. It provides as follows: (1) The trustees for sale shall manage or superintend the management of the trust land, with full power(a)…

  • Section 57 Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959 Section 57 of the Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959 is about Reference of questions to court. It provides as follows: If a question arises’ or a doubt is entertained (a) respecting the exercise or intended exercise…

  • Section 56 Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959 Section 56 of the Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959 is about Power for trustees to enter into contracts. It provides as follows: (1) The trustees for sale(i) may contract to make any sale, exchange, mortgage, charge…

  • Section 55 Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959 Section 55 of the Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959 is about Completion of transactions by conveyance. Miscellaneous Provisions. It provides as follows: (1) On a sale, exchange, lease, mortgage, charge, or other disposition, thetrustees for sale…

  • Section 54 Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959 Section 54 of the Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959 is about Power to raise money by mortgage. It provides as follows: (1) Where money is required for any of the following purposes namely:(i) Discharging an incumbrance…