SHERIFFS AND CIVIL PROCESS ACT

Section 46: Mode of levying execution against buildings

1945Section 46 of 112Federal Republic of Nigeria

(1) Every house or other building belonging to the owner of the land on which it stands shall be dealt with as immovable property and may be taken in execution accordingly, and where any house or other building is on land which is not the property of the owner of the house or other building, or on land held under the provisions of the Land Use Act, all the right, title and interest of the owner of the house or other building in the land on which the house or building is erected may be sold, together with the house or other building, and the same shall be dealt with as immovable property, subject to the provisions of the said Act.
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(2) In any such case as last aforesaid any rent reserved by such lease, certificate of occupancy or instrument and remaining unpaid shall be recoverable as in section 35 of this Act.

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Section 46, SHERIFFS AND CIVIL PROCESS ACT (1945).

https://repo.podus.ai/laws/sheriffs-and-civil-process-act/section/46/