Section 58 Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959

Section 58 of the Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959 is about Management of land. It provides as follows:

(1) The trustees for sale shall manage or superintend the management of the trust land, with full power
(a) to fell timber or cut underwood from time to time in the usual course for sale, or for repairs or otherwise; and

(b) to erect, pull down, rebuild, and repair houses, and other buildings and erections;
and
(c) to continue the working of quarries which have usually been worked; and
(d) to drain or otherwise improve the land or any part thereof; and
(e) to insure against loss by fire; and

(f) to make allowances to and arrangements with tenants and others; and
(g) to determine tenancies, and to accept surrenders of leases and tenancies; and
(h) generally to deal with the land in a proper and due course of management.

(2) The trustees may from time to time, out of the income of the land, including the
produce of the sale of timber and underwood, pay the expenses incurred in the
management, or in the exercise of any power conferred by this section, or otherwise
in relation to the land, and all outgoings not payable by any tenant or other person,
and shall keep down any annual sum, and the interest of any principal sum, charged
on the land.

(3) This section applies only if and as far as a contrary intention is not expressed in the settlement.