Land Law in Nigeria : Second Edition.
- 2nd ed.
- 1 online resource (274 pages)
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Cases cited -- Statutes -- Contents -- Chapter 1 - Land per se -- Any precise definition of land? -- Appraisal and critique of definitions of Land -- Whither the doctrine Cuius est solum eius est usque ad coelum et da inferos and Quic quid plantatur solo, solo cedit? -- Understanding the Common Law concept of land -- Quic quid plantatur solo solo cedit and the rule of Customary land law in Nigeria -- Removal of Fixtures -- Sources of Nigerian Land Law -- Nigerian Legislation -- Chapter 2 - Concept of ownership -- Methods of providing ownership of land -- The character of possession -- Chapter 3 - Ownership and communal land holding under customary land tenure -- Meaning of communal land -- Ownership of land by the community -- Origin of communal land -- Management of communal land -- Rigts of members to communal land -- Strangers as regard communal land -- Communal lands and contemporary developments -- Chapter 4 - Individual land ownership -- Defining individual land ownership -- Origin of individual land ownership -- Alienation of individual land -- Chapter 5 - Family land ownership -- What then is a family? -- Origin of family land -- Rights of members over family land -- Some explanatory terms/distinctions as regards family land ownership -- Chapter 6 - Alienation under customary law -- Acquisition of family land and its relevance to alienation -- Alienation of family land -- Requirement for a valid alienation of family land -- Void and voidable alienation -- Validity of sale of family land under customary law -- Chapter 7 - Customary tenancy -- Nature of customary tenancy -- Defining customary tenancy -- Terms associated with customary tenancy -- How customary tenancy can be created -- Classes of customary -- Obligation of the overlord -- Rights of the overlord. Duties of the customary tenant -- How customary tenancy can be determined -- Forfeiture re-defined -- Chapter 8 - Pledge -- Definitional clarification -- Essentials of a pledge -- Reasons for pledge -- Comparison between a lien, mortgage and pledge -- Rights of a pledge -- Duties of the pledge -- Perpetual redeemability of a pledge -- Absence of written documents as evidence -- Unauthorized alienation by the pledgee -- Chapter 9 - The law of property: definition of terms -- Classification of property -- Chapter 10 - An overview of the effect of Land Use Act on customary ownership of land -- Persons in occupation before the coming into effect of the Land Use Act 1978 -- The need for Governor's consent before the alienation of land under the Land Use Act -- Governor's power of revocation of statutory right of occupancy and customary right of occupancy -- Effect of the Act on the jurisdiction of court with respect to land matters -- Chapter 11 - The Nigerian Land Use Act, 1978: x-raying emerging controversies -- Constitutional incorporation controversy -- Expropiation controversy -- Ouster clauses controversy -- Chapter 12 - The Land Use Act, 1978: a curse or blessing? -- The pre-1978 statutory intervention in land law and land administration in Nigeria -- Background to the Land Use Act -- The effect of the Land Use Act on land holding -- The legal status of the Act -- An appraisal of the Land Use Act, 1978 -- Chapter 13 - Ways of declaration of title to land -- By traditional evidence -- Documents of title -- Acts of ownership -- Acts of long possession and enjoyment of the land -- Proof of possession of connected or adjacent land -- The taking of oath ad juju -- Chapter 14 - Legal mortgage: problems and controversies -- Power of sale -- Statutory mortgage corporations -- Chapter 15 - The position of landlord and tenant under the Land Use Act, 1978. Implications of Section I and 36 (2) of the Act -- Chapter 16 - The procedure for recovery of premises under the recovery of premises law -- The issue of jurisdiction -- Recovery of premises procedure -- Service of notice or process -- Service of notice by the agent or solicitor -- Notice to quit and owner's intention to recover possession -- The position of subtenants/statutory tenants and the recovery of premises law -- Appraising the recovery of premises laws -- An appraisal of the Plateau State Rent Control and Recovery of Premises Law -- Right against forceful and illegal ejectioon under the Plateau State Rent Control and Recovery -- Chapter 17 - Classification of Right of Occupancy -- Statutory right -- The effect of a grant of right of occupancy by government -- The effect of non-compliance with the provision for consent and approval -- Chapter 18 - Match towards reform of the Land Use Act, 1978 -- Land Reform/Amendment -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back cover.