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.