Analysis of concepts; Meaning of title; Conceptual problems concerning ownership in Nigeria; Right of sovereignty; Possession; Legal conception of land; Duality of laws; Implication of the duality of laws; Applicable customary law; Indigenous systems of land tenure; Community land; Family property; Acquisition of Title to Land inter vivos; Acquisition of original title; Derivative titles; Rules governing Validity of grants; Mode of conveyance and the priority of competing interests; Applicable laws; Transactions governed by english law or statute; Registration of instruments; The Doctrine of notice; Transactions governed by customary law; Choice of law; Succession to rights in land; Wills; Intestacy; Family property; Variation of customary rules of succession by marriage; Extinction of rights in land; Extinction of occupational rights; Extinction of ownership by adverse possession; Registration of title to land; The Scheme of the registration of titles act, 1935; Duties of the registrar; Protection of Customary Titles; Protection of Unregistered Estates and Interests; Dealings in Registered Land; Extent of the State’s Guarantee of Registered Title; Exemption of Registered Land from the Land Registration Act; The State and Land; Southern Nigeria; Northern Nigeria; Judicial Proceedings; Jurisdiction; Right to Take or Defend an Action; Evidence;