caa a22 4500 386371091 CHVBK 20180307111958.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0021855300007956 doi S0021855300007956 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0021855300007956 Oshio P. E. Mortgages Under the Rights of Occupancy System in Nigeria [Elektronische Daten] [P. E. Oshio] The Land Use Act, 1978 (hereinafter referred to, where the context admits, as "the Act”) introduced a uniform State ownership of land otherwise known as the Rights of Occupancy System in Nigeria. Section 1 of the Act vests all land within the territory of each State in the Federation in the Governor of the State to hold upon trust for the use and common benefit of all Nigerians. Section 5 empowers the Governor in respect of land whether or not in an urban area to grant a Statutory Right of Occupancy to any person for all purposes, while Section 6 empowers the Local Government, where appropriate, in respect of land in a non-urban area to grant a Customary Right of Occupancy to any person. By Sections 34 and 36 former owners of land become deemed holders of rights of occupancy into which their former ownership rights have been transformed by operation of law. The Act continues to attract comments from learned writers as to its effect on various aspects of property law. However, it would appear that not many writers have focused particularly on the effect of the Act on the law of mortgages. This is not to say that the subject is not important, nor that the Act has not significantly affected the law and practice of mortgages. The object of this article is to fill this vacuum. Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1989 Journal of African Law Cambridge University Press 33/1(1989), 19-30 0021-8553 33:1<19 1989 33 JAL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021855300007956 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021855300007956 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Oshio P. E. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of African Law Cambridge University Press 33/1(1989), 19-30 0021-8553 33:1<19 1989 33 JAL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge