Section 147 Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959

Section 147 of the Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959 is about Abolition of the rule in Shelley’s case. It provides as follows:

Where by any instrument coming into operation after the commencement of
this Law an interest in any property is expressed to be given to the heir or heirs or
issue or any particular heir or any class of the heirs or issue of any person in words
which, but for this section would, under the rule of law known as the Rule in
Shelley’s case, have operated to give to that person an interest in fee simple or an
entailed interest, such words shall operate in equity as words of purchase and not of
limitation, and subject to the proviso to sub-section (3) of section 3 shall be construed and have effect accordingly, and in the case of an interest in any property expressed to be given to an heir or heirs or any particular heir or class of heirs, the same person or persons shall take as would in the case of freehold land have answered that description under the general law in force before the commencement of this Law.