Section 144 Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959

Section 144 of the Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959 is about Effect of power of attorney irrevocable for a fixed time. It provides as follows:

(1) If a power of attorney, whether given for valuable consideration or not, is
in the instrument creating the power expressed to be irrevocable for a fixed time
therein specified, not exceeding one year from the date of the instrument, then, in
favour of a purchaser

(i) The power shall not be revoked for and during that fixed time either by any thing
done by the donor of the power without the concurrence of the donee of the power,
or by the death, disability or bankruptcy of the donor of the power; and

(ii) Any act done within that fixed time by the donee of the power in pursuance of
the power shall be as valid as if anything done by the donor of the power without the
concurrence of the donee of the power, or the death, disability or bankruptcy of the
donor of the power, had not been done or happened; and

(iii) Neither the donee of the power, nor the purchaser, shall at any time be
prejudicially affected by notice either during or after that fixed time of anything done by the donor of the power during that fixed time without the concurrence of the donee of the power, or of the death, disability or bankruptcy of the donor of the
power, within that fixed time.

(2) This section applies to powers of attorney created by instruments executed after the thirty-first day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine.