Section 91 Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959

Section 91 of the Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959 is about Confirmation of past transactions. It provides as follows:

(1) A deed containing a declaration by the estate owner that his estate shall go
and devolve in such a manner as may be requisite for confirming any interests
intended to affect his estate and capable under this Law of subsisting as legal estates which, at some prior date, were expressed to have been transferred or created, and any dealings therewith which would have been legal if those interests had been legally and validly transferred or created, shall, to the extent of the estate of the estate owner, but without prejudice to the restrictions imposed by this Law in the case of mortgages, operate to give legal effect to the interests so expressed to have been transferred or created and to the subsequent dealings aforesaid.

(2) The powers conferred by this section may be exercised by a trustee for sale or a
personal representative (being in each case an estate owner) as well as by an absolute owner, but if exercised by any person, other than an absolute owner, only with the leave of the court.

(3) This section applies only to deeds containing such a declaration as aforesaid if executed after the commencement of this Law.