Category: Nigeria


  • Section 10 Statute of Frauds Section 10 of Statute of Frauds is about Trust shall be assets by descent. It provides as follows: And if any cestuy que trust hereafter shall dye leaveing a trust in fee simple to descend to his heire, there, and in every such case such trust shall be deemed and…

  • Section 9 Statute of Frauds Section 9 of Statute of Frauds is about Assignments of trusts shall be in writing. It provides as follows: All grants and assignments of any trust or confidence shall likewise be in writeing signed by the partie granting or assigning the same [or] by such last will or devise or…

  • Section 8 Statute of Frauds Section 8 of Statute of Frauds is about Proviso for trusts arising, transferred or extinguished by implication of law. It provides as follows: Provided alwayes that where any conveyance shall bee made of any lands or tenements by which a trust or confidence shall or may arise or result by…

  • Section 7 Statute of Frauds 1677 Section 7 of Statute of Frauds is about Declarations or creations of trusts of lands to be in writing signed. It provides as follows: All declarations or creations of trusts or confidences of any lands tenements or hereditaments shall be manifested and proved by some writeing signed by thepartie…

  • Section 4 Statute of Frauds Section 4 of Statute of Frauds is about No action against executors, etc., upon a special promise, or upon any agreement, or contract for sale of lands, etc., unless agreement, etc., be in writing, and signed. It provides as follows: Noe Action shall be brought whereby to charge the Defendant…

  • Section 3 Statute of Frauds Section 3 of Statute of Frauds is about No leases or estates of freehold or copyhold, etc., to be granted or surrendered but by writing signed. It provides as follows: And moreover that noe leases estates or interests either of freehold or terms of yeares or any uncertaine interest ………

  • Section 2 Statute of Frauds Section 2 of Statute of Frauds is about Except leases not exceeding three years, etc. It provides as follows: Except nevertheless all leases not exceeding the terme of three yeares from the makeing thereof whereupon the rent reserved to the landlord dureing such terme shall amount unto two third parts…

  • Section 1 Statute of Frauds Section 1 of Statute of Frauds is about Parol leases and interests of freehold, etc., to have the force of estates at will only. It provides as follows: All leases estates interests of freehold or termes of yeares or any uncertaine interest of in to or out of any messuages…

  • Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959 [23rd April, 1959.] Sections Part I – Preliminary Section 1 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Short title and application. Section 2 Property and Conveyancing Law 1959 – Interpretation. Part II – General Principles as to Legal Estates, Equitable Interests and Powers Section 3…

  • Section 199 Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959 Section 199 of the Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959 is about Application to the Crown. It provides as follows: (1) Nothing in this Law shall be construed as rendering any property of theCrown subject to distress,…