ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES OF LAW LAGOS STATE

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LIST OF LAWS OF LAGOS, [ALPHABETICAL]  

ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES LAW

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

PART 1-Preliminary

1.       Citation and application.      

2        Interpretation.

PART 2- Devolution of Real Estate

3.       Devolution of real estate on personal representative.          

4.       Application to real estate of law affecting chattels real.     

5.       Interpretation of Part 2.          

PART 3 – Executors and Administrators

6.       Cesser of right of executor to prove. 

7.       Withdrawal of renunciation.  

8.       Executor of executor represents original testator.      

9.       Right of proving executors to exercise powers.         

10.     Vesting of estate of intestate between death and grant of administration.

11.     Executor not to act while administration is in force. 

12.     Continuance of legal proceedings after revocation of temporary administration.

13.     Rights and liabilities of administrator.

Duties, Rights, and Obligations

14.     Duty of personal representative as to inventory.       

15.     Rights of action by or against personal representatives.       

16.     Rights of distress.        

17.     Protection of persons acting on probate or administration. 

18.     Liability of person fraudulently obtaining or retaining estate of deceased.  

19.     Liability of estate of personal representative.

PART 4- Grants of Probate and Administration

20.     Application for grants.           

21.     Caveats.        

22.     Power to grant representation of real and personal estate separately or together.

23.     Summons of executor to prove or renounce.

24.     Provisions as to the number of personal representatives.      

25.     Power to grant representation to a trust corporation.          

26.     Discretion of court as to persons to whom administration is to be granted.

27.     Administration pendente lite.

28.     Grant of special administration where personal representative is abroad.  

29.     Administration during minority of executor.   

30.     Administration with will annexed.      

31.     Administration bonds.

32.     Transfer by private executor or administrator to Administrator General.       

33.     Places for deposit of original wills and other documents.     

34.     Official copies of wills.

35.     Depositories of wills of living persons.

PART 5- Administration of Assets 

36.     Real and personal estate of deceased are assets for payment of debts.     

37.     Trusts on which estate held.   

38.     Administration of assets.        

39.     Charges on property of deceased to be paid primarily out of the property charged.         

40.     Effect of assent or conveyance by personal representative. 

41.     Validity of conveyance not affected by revocation of representation.        

42.     Right to follow property and powers of the court in relation thereto.          

43.     Powers of management.       

44.     Powers of personal representative as to appropriation.       

45.     Power to appoint trustees of infants’ property.         

46.     Obligations of personal representative as to giving possession of land and powers of the court.  

47.     Power to postpone distribution.        

PART 6-Distribution of Residuary Estate

48.     Abolition of descent to heir, curtesy, dower and escheat.    

49.     Succession to real and personal estate on intestacy.

50.     Statutory trusts in favour of issue and other classes of relatives of intestate. 

51.     Right of surviving spouse to have own life interest redeemed.         

52.     Powers of personal representatives in respect of interests of surviving spouse.         

53.     Application to cases of partial intestacy.      

54.     Construction of documents.  

55.     Savings.          

56.     Interpretation of Part 6.          

PART 7-Supplemental

57.     Saving as to power of court. 

58.     Application to State.  

59.     Power to make rules. 

60.     Repeal of Cap. 2 of Laws of Nigeria, 1948.    

          SCHEDULE         

ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES LAW

A Law relating to the Administration of the Estates of Deceased Persons.

[W.N. 1959, Cap. 1. L.S.L.N. 16 of 1972.]

(Commencement)           [23rd April, 1959]

PART 1 – Preliminary

1.       Citation and application

(1)     This Law may be cited as the Administration of Estates Law.

(2)     Save as otherwise expressly provided this Law does not apply in any case where the death occurred before the commencement of this Law.

(3)     Nothing in this Law affects the administration of the estates of deceased persons by or under the authority of any customary court nor unless otherwise expressly provided the distribution, inheritance or succession of any estate where such distribution, inheritance or succession is governed by customary law whether such estate is administered under this Law or by or under the authority of a customary court.

LAWS OF LAGOS STATE

LAWS OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA