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CONTINUING MORTGAGE NEEDS NO REGISTRATION

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B.O.N Ltd. v. Akintoye (1999) 12 NWLR (Pt. 631) 392: “Where an original mortgage is a continuing security for raising a second mortgage, what is needed is to upstamp it. There is no need to obtain a fresh consent of the Governor for the second mortgage. In the instant case, where the wordings of the mortgage deeds relating to the security are clear and unambiguous and where the original deed was a continuing security, there was no need to obtain a fresh consent of the Governor for the second mortgage”.

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RIGHT TO REDEEM IS INCIDENTAL IN MORTGAGES

Incident to every mortgage is a right of the mortgagor to redeem – this right is generally referred to as the equity of redemption. – Ogundare JSC. Ejikeme v. Okonkwo (1994) Was this dictum helpful? Yes 0 No 0...

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EQUITY LOOKS AT SUBSTANCE NOT FORM IN MORTGAGES

In determining whether any given transaction is in the nature of a mortgage, equity looks at the substance of the matter and not merely at the form. – Iguh JSC. Ejikeme v. Okonkwo (1994) Was this dictum helpful? Yes 0 No 0...

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RIGHT TO REDEEM A MORTGAGE

It is important to note that incident to every mortgage is a right of the mortgagor to redeem. This right is generally referred to as the right of redemption. The right to redeem is so inseparable an incident of a mortgage that it cannot be taken away even by an expressed agreement of the parties...

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IN MORTGAGE THERE IS IMPLIED PROMISE TO REPAY

Exhibit ‘A’ does not contain a covenant to pay the principal’s debt and interest on a given date. On the authorities however, there is an implied promise to pay and as no date has been fixed for the repayment it is my view that a reasonable time will be implied. – Ogundare JSC. Ejikeme v....

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MORTGAGEE OR RECEIVER EXERCISING A POWER OF SALE ONLY HAS A DUTY TO ACT BONA FIDE

There is an abundance of authorities describing the obligations of a mortgagee and by extension, a receiver, exercising a power of sale. Thus, whether the mortgagee or receiver owes a duty of care in the conduct of the sale, the law seems sufficiently well settled that the mortgagee or receiver engaged in selling the mortgaged...

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DEPOSIT OF TITLE DEED CREATES EQUITABLE MORTGAGE

Kadiri v. Olusaga (1956) 1 FSC at p. 178: “It is the case, as stated by the learned trial Judge, that the security given was not the form of a legal mortgage, that is to say by deed, transferring the legal estate to the respondent, but the deposit of title deeds as security for a...

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