LAGOS STATE LIMITATION LAW

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LIST OF LAWS OF LAGOS, [ALPHABETICAL]  

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

PART I – PRELIMINARY AND GENERAL SECTION

1.       Application to the State

2.       Acquiescence

3.       Set-off and counterclaim

4.       Saving for other limitation enactments

5.       Actions barred and pending at commencement of Law

6.       Transitional provisions

PART 2 – PERIOD OF LIMITATION FOR DIFFERENT CLASSES OF ACTION

7.       Part 2 to be subject to provisions of Part 3

8.       Actions barred after certain periods of six years

9.       Actions claiming damages for negligence, etc., where damages claimed consist of or include personal injuries

10.     Actions claiming damages for slander

11.     Actions barred after two years from date of accrual of cause

12.     Actions barred after certain periods of twelve (12) years

13.     Exemption for claims for equitable relief

14.     Limitation of action in case of successive conversions

15.     Extinction of title to ownership of converted goods

16.     Limitation of actions to recover land

17.     Accrual of right of action on dispossession

18.     Accrual of right of action on death of owner in possession

19.     Right of action not to accrue unless there is adverse possession

20.     No right of action to be preserved by formal entry or adverse possession

21.     Extinction of title

22. Actions to recover settled chattels

23.     Actions to recover arrears of a conventional, rent, etc.

24.     Actions to recover certain, arrears of annuity

25.     Actions by encumbrancers claiming sale of land

26.     Extinction of title of mortgagee

27.     Extinction of title of mortgagor

28.     Limitation of redemption actions

29.     Actions to recover principal money secured by mortgage or charge

30.     Actions to recover arrears of interest on a mortgage or charge

31.     Extinction of right of mortgagee or chargee

32.     Actions against trustees

33.     Actions to recover the personal estate of deceased persons

PART 3 – EXTENSION OF LIMITATION PERIODS IN CASE OF DISABILITY, ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, PART PYMENT FRAUD AND MISTAKE

34.     Interpretation of Part 3

35.     Person under a disability

36.     Extension of limitation period in case of disability

37.     Meaning of acknowledgment

38.     Action to recover debt

39.     Action to recover claim to personal estate of deceased person

40.     Action to recover land

41.     Action by mortgagee to recover land

42.     Action by encumbrancer claiming sale of land

43.     Action to redeem mortgaged land in mortgagee’s possession

44.     Action in respect of personal right in and over land

45.     Formal provisions as to acknowledgment

46.     Effect of acknowledgment on persons other than the maker or recipient

47.     Exemption from stamp duty

48.     Meaning of ‘‘payment’’

49.     Action to recover debt

50.     Action claiming personal estate of deceased

51.     Action by mortgagee to recover land

52.     Action by encumbrancer claiming sale of land

53.     Effect of payment on right of action to redeem certain mortgaged land

54.     Formal provisions as to payment

55.     Effect of payment on other persons

56.     Appropriation of payment in respect of debts

57.     Endorsement of payment by creditor not to be evidence of payment

58.     Postponement of limitation period in case of fraud

59.     Postponement of limitation period in case of mistake

PART 4 – APPLICATION OF THIS LAW AND OTHER LIMITATION ENACTMENTS TO ARBITRATION

60.     Interpretation of Part 4

61.     Commencement of arbitration

62.     Application of Law, etc. to arbitrations

63.     Accrual of cause of action notwithstanding term in submission

64.     Power of court to extend time

65.     Application of Part 4 to arbitration under other enactments

66.     Saving for other enactments

67.     Arbitrations pending

PART 5 – MISCELLANEOUS

68.     Application of Law to actions in respect of matters regulated by customary law

69.     Interpretation

70.     Date of accrual of right of action by joint tort-feasor

71.     Enactments ceasing to apply

72.     Citation

LIMITATION LAW

A LAW TO MAKE PROVISION FOR THE LIMITATION OF ACTIONS AND ARBITRATIONS

[Commencement]                                                                             [31st December 1966]

PART 1 – PRELIMINARY AND GENERAL

1.      Application to the State

(1)     Save as in this Law otherwise expressly provided and without prejudice to section 4, this Law will apply to proceedings by or against a State authority in like manner as if that State authority were a private individual.

(2)     This Law shall not apply to –

(a)     any proceedings for the recovery of any sum due;

(3)     in respect of a tax which is for the time being under the care and management of the Federal Board of Inland Revenue, or the Lagos State Internal Revenue Board; or

[L.S.L.N. 16 OF 1972.]

(a)     in respect of a duty which is for the time being under the control and management of the Board of Customs and Excise, or interest thereon; or

(b)     any proceedings for the recovery of any fine or penalty incurred in connection with any such tax or duty; or

(c)     any forfeiture proceedings under the customs laws or the excise laws as defined in the customs and Excise Management Act; or

[L.F.N. CAP. 84, C45 OF 2010.]

(d)     any proceedings in respect of the forfeiture of a ship or of an interest in a ship under the Merchant Shipping Act; or

[L.F.N. CAP. 224, M11 OF 2010.]

(e)     any action or remedy referred to in sections 30 or 31 of the State Lands Law.

[L.S.L.N. 16 OF 1972. CAP. S11.]

LAWS OF LAGOS STATE

LAWS OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA