Section 96 Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959

Section 96 of the Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959 is about Conveyances by a person to himself, etc. It provides as follows:

(1) In conveyances made after the thirty-first day of December, eighteen
hundred and ninety-nine, personal property, including chattels real, may be
conveyed by a person to himself jointly with another person by the like means by
which it might be conveyed by him-to another person.

(2) In conveyances made after the thirty-first day of December, eighteen hundred
and ninety-nine, freehold land, or a thing in action, may be conveyed by a person to
himself jointly with another person, by the like means by which it might be conveyed by him to another person; and may, in like manner, be conveyed by a husband to his
wife, and by a wife to her husband, alone or jointly with another person.

(3) After the commencement of this Law a person may convey land to or vest land
in himself.

(4) Two or more persons (whether or not being trustees or personal representatives)
may convey, and shall be deemed always to have been capable of conveying, any
property vested in them to any one or more of themselves in like manner as they
could have conveyed such property to a third party: provided that if the persons in
whose favour the conveyance is made are, by reason of any fiduciary relationship or
otherwise, precluded from validly carrying out the transaction, the conveyance shall
be liable to be set aside.