Book Title: The Nigerian Law on Preparation and Registration of Land Instruments
Author: Olusesan Oliyide, Professor of Law.
Year of Publication: 2024
Publisher: Throne of Grace Publishers Ltd, Ibadan
No of Pages: 1, 406
Price: N50, 000.00 (discounted)
Reviewer: Alexander Ekemenah
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This voluminous book which introduces a very unique and remarkable addition to scholarship, especially, in the area of land law and conveyancing jurisprudence was presented to the public on Saturday, December 7, 2024 at the Lagos Airport Hotel, Ikeja.
The book, which was well conceived and carefully chosen, covers the wide-range areas of land law and its jurisprudential grounding.
It is an attempt to be a one stop-shop and all-embracing reference material in the area of its core focus as well as in ancillary areas of law.
The book as conceived and produced especially the wide scope it covered serves as an indispensable companion to honourable judges, conveyancers, litigation lawyers, academics, students, estate surveyors and valuers, estate agents, land surveyors, and indeed, all others, whose vocation or interest revolves around land and knowledge of land law and conveyancing.
The book contains detailed analyses of several cases on land instruments preparation and registration, as well as allied issues.
Cases were copiously drawn from Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon), Australia, New Zealand, West African Court of Appeal, as well as Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, among others.
About 80 percent of the cases discussed in the book are domiciled in Supreme Court of Nigeria decisions as well as that of the Court of Appeal while some decisions of High Courts of States and the National Industrial Court of Nigeria were also examined in the book.
About 99 percent of the cases discussed in the book have minimum of 5 alternative citations, thereby, giving readers multiple citations choices and ease of access to the cases discussed in the book, whenever the need arises.
About 98 percent of the cases cited (across jurisdictions) indicate the exact honourable judges that gave the decisions or the lead decisions (as the case may be).
About 99 percent of the cases cited (across jurisdictions) indicate the exact courts that decided the cases; e.g. Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, High Court of a State (and date of delivery regarding unreported cases), West African Court of Appeal, High Court of Ghana, High Court of South Africa, High Court and Civil Court of Appeal of Uganda, High Court and Civil Court of Appeal of Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon), Court of Exchequer (UK), Court of Chancery (UK), Court of Appeal (UK), House of Lords or Supreme Court (UK), specific US Courts, etc.
The in-depth analyses of substantive law in the book will help litigation lawyers avoid the pitfalls in leadings and evidence that sometimes yield to failure in declaration of title and other land-related
This book is highly commended to all these categories of persons interested in knowing further about how to prepare and register land instruments in Nigeria.