Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959
[23rd April, 1959.]
Sections
Part I – Preliminary
Section 1 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Short title and application.
Section 2 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Interpretation.
Part II – General Principles as to Legal Estates, Equitable Interests and Powers
Section 3 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Legal estates and equitable interests.
Section 4 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Conveyances over-reaching certain equitable interests and powers.
Section 5 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Manner of giving effect to equitable interests and powers.
Section 6 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Creation and disposition of equitable interests.
Section 7 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Satisfied terms, whether created out of freehold or leasehold land to cease.
Section 8 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Saving of lessors’ and lessees’ covenants.
Section 9 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Saving of legal estates in certain cases.
Section 10 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Saving of certain legal powers to lease.
Section 11 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Vesting orders and dispositions of legal estates operating as conveyances by an estate owner.
Section 12 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Title to be shown to legal estates.
Section 13 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Limitation and prescription laws.
Section 14 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Effect of possession of documents.
Section 15 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Interests of persons in possession.
Section 16 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Presumption that parties are of full age.
Section 17 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Effect of conveyances of legal estates to infants.
Section 18 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Infants not to be appointed trustees.
Section 19 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Receipts by married infants.
Section 20 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Conveyances on behalf of lunatics and as to lands held by them on trust for sale.
Section 21 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Duration of trusts for sale.
Section 22 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Appointment of trustees of dispositions on trust for sale.
Section 23 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Power to postpone sale.
Section 24 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Consents to the execution of a trust for sale.
Section 25 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Purchaser not to be concerned with the trusts of the proceeds of sale which are to be paid to two or more trustees or to a trust corporation.
Section 26 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Powers of management, etc., conferred on trustees for sale.
Section 27 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Delegation of powers of management by trustees for sale.
Section 28 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Powers of court where trustees for sale refuse to exercise powers.
Section 29 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Trust for sale of mortgaged property where right of redemption is barred.
Section 30 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Implied trust for sale in personalty settlements.
Section 31 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Application of Part II to personal representatives.
Section 32 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Limitation of land by way of succession to create trust for sale.
Section 33 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Vesting of land limited by way of succession.
Section 34 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Vesting of land settled under Settled Land Acts, 1882–1890.
Section 35 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Conveyance or devise of legal estate to infant operative only as declaration to create a trust for sale.
Section 36 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Trust for sale arises from devolution of legal estate on an infant by reason of intestacy, etc.
Section 37 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Trustees for sale where infant entitled to legal estate.
Section 38 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Powers of sale and exchange.
Section 39 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Regulations respecting sales.
Section 40 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Regulations respecting exchanges.
Section 41 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Power to lease for ordinary or building purposes.
Section 42 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Regulations respecting leases generally.
Section 43 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Leasing powers for special objects.
Section 44 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Regulations respecting building leases.
Section 45 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Power on dispositions to impose restrictions and make reservations and stipulations.
Section 46 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Power to grant options.
Section 47 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Surrenders.
Section 48 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Acceptance of leases.
Section 49 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Power to compromise claims and release restrictions, etc.
Section 50 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Power to vary leases and to give licences and consents.
Section 51 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Power to apportion rents.
Section 52 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Provisions as to consideration.
Section 53 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – General power for the trustees for sale to effect any transaction under an order of the court.
Section 54 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Power to raise money by mortgage.
Section 55 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Completion of transactions by conveyance.
Section 56 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Power for trustees to enter into contracts.
Section 57 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Reference of questions to court.
Section 58 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Management of land.
Section 59 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Saving for and exercise of other powers under settlement.
Section 60 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Saving for additional or larger powers under settlement.
Section 61 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Effect of future dispositions to tenants in common.
Section 62 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Meaning of the statutory trusts.
Section 63 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Joint tenancies.
Section 64 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Rights of husband and wife.
Section 65 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Party structures.
Section 66 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Transitional provisions in First Schedule.
Part III – Contracts, Conveyances and other Instruments
Section 67 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Contracts for sale, etc., of land to be in writing.
Section 68 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Stipulations not of the essence of a contract.
Section 69 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Provisions as to contracts.
Section 70 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Statutory commencements of title.
Section 71 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Other statutory conditions of sale.
Section 72 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Application of insurance money on completion of a sale or exchange.
Section 73 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Stipulations preventing a purchaser, lessee, or underlessee from employing his own solicitor to be void.
Section 74 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Applications to the court by vendor and purchaser.
Section 75 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Discharge of incumbrances by the court on sales or exchanges.
Section 76 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Lands lie in grant only.
Section 77 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Conveyances to be by deed.
Section 78 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Instruments required to be in writing.
Section 79 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Creation of interests in land by parol.
Section 80 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Savings in regard to last two sections.
Section 81 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Persons taking who are not parties and as to indentures.
Section 82 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Description of deeds.
Section 83 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Provisions as to supplemental instruments.
Section 84 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Conditions and certain covenants not implied.
Section 85 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Abolition of technicalities in regard to conveyances and deeds.
Section 86 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Construction of expressions used in deed and other instruments.
Section 87 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – General words implied in conveyances.
Section 88 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – All estate clause implied.
Section 89 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Production and safe custody of documents.
Section 90 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Reservation of legal estates.
Section 91 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Confirmation of past transactions.
Section 92 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Receipt in deed sufficient.
Section 93 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Receipt in deed or indorsed evidence.
Section 94 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Receipt in deed or indorsed authority for payment to solicitor.
Section 95 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Release of part of land affected from a judgment.
Section 96 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Conveyances by a person to himself, etc.
Section 97 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Execution of deeds by an individual.
Section 98 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Execution of instruments by or on behalf of corporations.
Section 99 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Rights of purchaser as to execution.
Section 100 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Covenants for title.
Section 101 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Implied covenants in conveyances subject to rents.
Section 102 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Benefits of covenants relating to land.
Section 103 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Burden of covenants relating to land.
Section 104 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Covenants binding land.
Section 105 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Effect of covenant with two or more jointly.
Section 106 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Covenants and agreements entered into by a person with himself and another or others.
Section 107 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Construction of implied covenants.
Part IV – Mortgages, and Powers of Attorney
Section 108 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Mode of mortgaging freeholds.
Section 109 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Mode of mortgaging leaseholds.
Section 110 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Charges by way of legal mortgage.
Section 111 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Realization of freehold mortgages.
Section 112 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Realization of leasehold mortgages.
Section 113 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Realization of equitable charges by the court.
Section 114 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Sale of mortgaged property in action for redemption or foreclosure.
Section 115 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Restriction on consolidation of mortgages.
Section 116 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Tacking and further advances.
Section 117 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Obligation to transfer instead of reconveying and as to right to take possession.
Section 118 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Regulations respecting inspection, production and delivery of documents, and priorities.
Section 119 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Priorities as between mortgages.
Section 120 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Actions for possession by mortgagors.
Section 121 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Leasing powers of mortgagor and mortgagee in possession.
Section 122 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Powers of mortgagor and mortgagee in possession to accept surrenders of leases.
Section 123 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Powers incident to estate or interest of mortgagee.
Section 124 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Provision as to mortgages of undivided shares in land.
Section 125 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Regulation of exercise of power of sale.
Section 126 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Conveyance on sale.
Section 127 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Application of proceeds of sale.
Section 128 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Provisions as to exercise of power of sale.
Section 129 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Mortgagee’s receipts, discharges, etc.
Section 130 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Amount and application of insurance money.
Section 131 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Appointment, powers, remuneration and duties of receiver.
Section 132 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Effect of advance on joint account.
Section 133 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Notice of trusts affecting mortgage debts.
Section 134 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Transfers of mortgages.
Section 135 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Reconveyances of mortgages by endorsed receipts.
Section 136 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Cesser of mortgage terms.
Section 137 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Forms of statutory legal charges.
Section 138 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Forms of statutory transfers of legal charges.
Section 139 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Implied covenants, joint and several.
Section 140 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Form of discharges of statutory mortgage or charge.
Section 141 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Execution under power of attorney.
Section 142 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Payment by attorney under power without notice of death, etc.
Section 143 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Effect of irrevocable power of attorney for value.
Section 144 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Effect of power of attorney irrevocable for a fixed time.
Section 145 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Devolution of power of attorney given to a purchaser.
Section 146 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Power of attorney granted by married women.
Part V – Equitable Interests and Things In Action
Section 147 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Abolition of the rule in Shelley’s case.
Section 148 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – As to heir taking by purchase.
Section 149 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Restriction on executory limitations.
Section 150 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Legal assignments of things in action.
Section 151 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Effect of registration of equitable interest.
Section 152 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Dealings with equitable interests in personalty.
Section 153 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Power to nominate a trust corporation to receive notices.
Part VI – Leases and Tenancies
Section 154 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Effect of extinguishment of reversion.
Section 155 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Apportionment of conditions on severance.
Section 156 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Rent and benefit of lessee’s covenants to run with the reversion.
Section 157 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Obligation of lessor’s covenants to run with reversion.
Section 158 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Effect of licences granted to lessees.
Section 159 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – No fine to be exacted for licence to assign.
Section 160 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Lessee to give notice of ejectment to lessor.
Section 161 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Restrictions on and relief against forfeiture of leases and underleases.
Section 162 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Waiver of a covenant in a lease.
Section 163 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Abolition of interesse termini, and as to reversionary leases and leases for lives.
Section 164 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Surrender of a lease, without prejudice to underleases with a view to the grant of a new lease.
Section 165 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Provision as to attornments by tenants.
Section 166 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Leases invalidated by reason of non-compliance with terms of powers under which they are granted.
Section 167 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Application of Part VI to existing leases.
Part VII – Powers
Section 168 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Release of powers simply collateral.
Section 169 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Disclaimer of power.
Section 170 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Protection of purchasers claiming under certain void appointments.
Section 171 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Validation of appointments where objects are excluded or take illusory shares.
Section 172 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Execution of powers not testamentary.
Section 173 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Application of Part VII to existing powers.
Part VIII – Perpetuities and Accumulations
Section 174 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Abolition of the double possibility rule.
Section 175 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Restrictions on the perpetuity rule.
Section 176 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Validation of certain gifts void for remoteness.
Section 177 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – General restrictions on accumulation of income.
Section 178 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Qualification of restrictions on accumulation.
Section 179 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Restriction on accumulation for the purchase of land.
Part IX – Lunatics
Section 180 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Power for court to settle the beneficial interests of a lunatic.
Part X – Voidable Dispositions
Section 181 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Voluntary conveyances to defraud creditors voidable.
Section 182 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Voluntary disposition of land: how far voidable as against purchasers.
Section 183 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Acquisitions of reversions at an under-value.
Part XI – Miscellaneous
Section 184 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Provisions as to corporations.
Section 185 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Dissolution of a corporation.
Section 186 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Protection of solicitor and trustees adopting Law.
Section 187 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Merger.
Section 188 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Rights of pre-emption capable of release.
Section 189 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Legal easements.
Section 190 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Power to direct division of chattels.
Section 191 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Indemnities against rents.
Section 192 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Regulations respecting notices.
Section 193 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Effect of registration of instrument under Land Instruments Registration Law.
Section 194 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Restrictions on constructive notice.
Section 195 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Notice of restrictive covenants and easements.
Part XII – General Provisions
Section 196 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Provisions of Law to apply to incorporeal hereditaments.
Section 197 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Payment into court, jurisdiction and procedure.
Section 198 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Orders of court conclusive.
Section 199 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Application to the Crown.
Schedules – (Not Available)
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