Section 191 Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959

Section 191 of the Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959 is about Indemnities against rents. It provides as follows:

(1) A power of distress given by way of indemnity against a rent or any part
thereof payable in respect of any land, or against the breach of any covenant or
condition in relation to land, is not and shall not be deemed ever to have been a bill
of sale within the meaning of the Bills of Sale Law, as amended by any subsequent
enactment.

(2) The benefit of all covenants and powers given by way of indemnity against a
rent or any part thereof payable in respect of land, or against the breach of any
covenant or condition in relation to land, is and shall be deemed always to have been annexed to the land to which the indemnity is intended to relate, and may be enforced by the estate owner for the time being of the whole or any part of that land,
notwithstanding that the benefit may not have been expressly apportioned or
assigned to him or to any of his predecessors in title.

(5) In this section “judgment” includes any decree, order, or rule having the effect of a judgment.