Section 2 Recovery of Premises Act

Section 2 Recovery of Premises Act 1945 is about Interpretation. It provides as follows:

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-
“agent” means any person usually employed by the landlord in the letting of the premises or in the collection of the rents thereof or specially authorised to act in a particular manner by writing under the hand of the landlord;

“court” includes the High Court and magistrates’ courts but does not include a customary court;

“landlord” in relation to any premises means the person entitled to the immediate reversion of the premises or if the property

therein is held in joint tenancy or tenancy in common, any of the persons entitled to the immediate reversion, and includes the attorney or agent of the landlord, and also any person appointed to act on behalf of the State in dealing with any land, building, premises or corporeal or incorporeal hereditament vested in the State;

“mesne profits” means the rents and profits which a tenant who his occupation of the premises and which he is liable to pay as compensation to the person entitled to possession.

“Minister” means the Minister charged with responsibility for the administration of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja;

“premises” includes-
(a) a house or building or any part thereof together with its grounds or other appurtenances, and
(b) land without any building thereon;
“rent” includes any part of any crop rendered, or any equivalent given in kind or in labour, in consideration of which a landlord has permitted any person to use and occupy any land.house, premises, or other corporeal hereditament;

“rules” means the rules for the time being in force relating to the practice and procedure of the courts in the exercise of their respective civil jurisdiction made under the law by which the courts were established or any law amending those laws:

“tenant” includes any person occupying premises whether on payment of rent or otherwise but does not include a person occupying premises under a bona fide claim to be the owner of the premises.

(2) A reference to a Form means a reference to that Form as set out in the Schedule to this Act.

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