Introduction: Legal notions of property (Law
Relating to Chattels (Personal Property); the Law Relating to Incorporeal
Property (Choses in Action), and Land Law). Historical evolution of land law in
Nigeria. Sources of Nigerian land law(d) terminology – such as ownership,
possession, titles, rights, liability and land. Customary land law/Islamic land
law: Modes of acquiring title to land, settlement; expansion; loan or
borrowing; pledge or pawn; gift; conquest, allotment, kola tenancy. Concept and
ownership of land: nature of the title to land; control and management
of community land – individual rights and extent of community land today;
creation of family land – nature and extent of member’s right in family land;
control of family land, alienation of family land, recovery of family land, Improvement
by a member of family land, termination of family land and an outline of
succession to rights in land.
- Teacher: Christiana Attah