Section 148 Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959

Section 148 of the Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959 is about As to heir tatting by purchase. It provides as follows:

(1) A limitation of real or personal property in favour of the heir general of a
deceased person which, if limited in respect of freehold land before the
commencement of this Law, would have conferred on the heir an estate in the land by purchase, shall operate to confer a corresponding equitable interest in the property on the person who would, if the general law in force immediately before such commencement had remained unaffected, have answered the description of the heir general of the deceased in respect of his freehold land, either at the death of the deceased or at the time named in the limitation, as the case may require.

(2) This section applies whether the deceased person dies before or after the
commencement of this Law, but only applies to limitations or trusts created by an
instrument coming into operation after such commencement.