Category: Nigeria


  • Section 56 Conveyancing and Law of Property Act 1881 Section 56 of the Conveyancing Act 1881 is about Receipt in deed or indorsed, authority for payment to solicitor. It provides as follows: (1.) Where a solicitor produces a deed, having in the body thereof or indorsed thereon a receipt for consideration money or other consideration,…

  • Section 55 Conveyancing and Law of Property Act 1881 Section 55 of the Conveyancing Act 1881 is about Receipt in deed or indorsed, evidence for subsequent purchaser. It provides as follows: (1.) A receipt for consideration money or other consideration in the body of a deed or indorsed thereon shall, in favour of a subsequent…

  • Section 54 Conveyancing and Law of Property Act 1881 Section 54 of the Conveyancing Act 1881 is about Receipt in deed sufficient. It provides as follows: (1.) A receipt for consideration money or securities in the body of a deed shall be a sufficient discharge for the same to the person paying or delivering the…

  • Section 53 Conveyancing and Law of Property Act 1881 Section 53 of the Conveyancing Act 1881 is about Construction of supplemental or annexed deed. It provides as follows: (1.) A deed expressed to be supplemental to a previous deed, or directed to be read as an annex thereto, shall, as far as may be, be…

  • Section 52 Conveyancing and Law of Property Act 1881 Section 52 of the Conveyancing Act 1881 is about Powers simply collateral. It provides as follows: (1.) A person to whom any power, whether coupled with an interest or not, is given may by deed release, or contract not to exercise, the power. (2.) This section…

  • Section 51 Conveyancing and Law of Property Act 1881 Section 51 of the Conveyancing Act 1881 is about Words of limitation In fee or in tail. It provides as follows: (1.) In a deed it shall be sufficient, in the limitation of an estate in fee simple, to use the words in fee simple, without…

  • Section 50 Conveyancing and Law of Property Act 1881 Section 50 of the Conveyancing Act 1881 is about Conveyance by a person to himself, &c. It provides as follows: (1.) Freehold land, or a thing in action, may be conveyed by a person to himself jointly with another person, by the like means by which…

  • Section 49 Conveyancing and Law of Property Act 1881 Section 49 of the Conveyancing Act 1881 is about Use of word grant unnecessary. It provides as follows: (1.) It is hereby declared that the use of the word grant is not necessary in order to convey tenements or hereditaments, corporeal or incorporeal. (2.) This section…

  • Section 48 Conveyancing and Law of Property Act 1881 Section 48 of the Conveyancing Act 1881 is about Deposit of original instruments creating powers of attorney. It provides as follows: (1.) An instrument creating a power of attorney, its execution being verified by affidavit, statutory declaration, or other sufficient evidence, may, with the affidavit or…

  • Section 47 Conveyancing and Law of Property Act 1881 Section 47 of the Conveyancing Act 1881 is about Payment by attorney under power without notice of. death, &c. good. It provides as follows: (1.) Any person making or doing any payment or act, in good faith, in pursuance of a power of attorney, shall not…