Section 199 Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959

Section 199 of the Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959 is about Application to the Crown. It provides as follows:

(1) Nothing in this Law shall be construed as rendering any property of the
Crown subject to distress, or liable to be taken or disposed of by means of any
distress.

(2) This Law shall not in any manner (save as otherwise expressly provided and
except so far as it relates to undivided shares, joint ownership, leases for lives or
leases for years terminable with life or marriage) affect or alter the descent,
devolution or tenure or the nature of the estates and interests of or in any land for the time being vested in Her Majesty in right of the Crown, but so nevertheless that, after the commencement of this Law, no estates, interests or charges in or over any such lands as aforesaid shall be conveyed or created, except such estates, interests or charges as are capable under this Law of subsisting or of being conveyed or created.

(3) Subject as aforesaid and to the provisions of the Crown Lands Law, the provisions of this Law bind the Crown.