Section 94 Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959
Section 94 of the Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959 is about Receipt in deed or indorsed authority for payment to solicitor. It provides as follows:
(1) Where a solicitor produces a deed, having in the body thereof or indorsed
thereon a receipt for consideration money or other consideration, the deed being
executed, or the indorsed receipt being signed, by the person entitled to give a receipt for that consideration, the deed shall be a sufficient authority to the person liable to pay or give the same for his paying or giving the same to the solicitor, without the solicitor producing any separate or other direction or authority in that behalf from the person who executed or signed the deed or receipt.
(2) This section applies whether the consideration was paid or given before or after the commencement of this Law.
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