Section 36 Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959

Section 36 of the Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959 is about Trust for sale arises from devolution of legal estate on an infant by reason of intestacy, etc. It provides as follows:

Where, after the commencement of this Law, an infant is beneficially entitled
to land for an estate in fee simple or for a term of years absolute and by reason of an intestacy or otherwise there is no instrument under which the interest of the infant arises or is acquired, a trust far sale for the benefit of the infant shall be deemed to have been created by the intestate or by the person whose interest the infant has acquired.