Section 12 Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959

Section 12 of the Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959 is about Title to be shown to legal estates. It provides as follows:

(1) Where title is shown to a legal estate in land, it shall be deemed not necessary
or proper to include in the abstract of title an instrument relating only to interests or
powers which will be over-reached by the conveyance of the estate to which title is
being shown; but nothing in this Part of this Law affects the liability of any person
to disclose an equitable interest or power which will not be so over-reached, or to
furnish an abstract of any instrument creating or affecting the same.

(2) A solicitor delivering an abstract framed in accordance with this Part of this Law
shall not incur any liability on account of an omission to include therein an
instrument which, under this section, is to be deemed not necessary or proper to be
included, nor shall any liability be implied by reason of the inclusion of any such
instrument.