Section 76 Land Registration Law (LRL) Lagos State 2015

Section 76 of the Land Registration Law (LRL) of Lagos State 2015 provides as follows:

(1) Every document shall be executed by all parties and shall be deemed to have been executed –
(a) if signed by a natural person;
(b) if sealed with the common seal of a corporation affixed in the presence of and attested to by its clerk, secretary or other permanent officer and by a member of the board of directors, council or other governing body of the corporation;

(c) in the case of a corporation solely, if it is duly signed and the official seal is affixed to it;
(d) in the case of a corporation not required by law to have a common seal, if signed by persons authorized in that behalf by any law or by the statute of the corporation or, in the absence of any express provision, by two or more persons duly appointed for that purpose by the corporation; or

(e) if the document is executed by an attorney, the Power of Attorney shall be proved in such manner as may be required by the provisions of this Law or as the Registrar may direct.

(2) A document executed outside Nigeria shall not be registered unless it is endorsed or has attached to it. a certificate that it has been signed in the presence of a Nigerian or foreign Judge, Magistrate, Justice of the Peace, Notary Public or any Consul.

(3) An instrument executed in Nigeria shall not be registered after the commencement of this Law where a grantor is an illiterate unless it has been executed by such illiterate grantor or grantors in the presence of a Magistrate, Justice of the Peace, Notary Public or Commissioner for Oaths and is attested to by such Magistrate, Justice of the Peace, Notary Public or Commissioner for Oaths as a witness to it.

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