The Weekly Law Reports
[1954] 3 WLR 552
[PRIVY COUNCIL.]
ANTONIO ASSAF APPELLANT; AND DANIEL OLATUNJI FUWA AND OTHERS RESPONDENTS.
ON APPEAL FROM THE WEST AFRICAN COURT OF APPEAL.
1954 May 31;
June 1, 2, 3;
Oct. 4.
June 1, 2, 3;
Oct. 4.
LORD PORTER, LORD ASQUITH OF BISHOPSTONE, LORD KEITH OF AVONHOLM.
West Africa
— Vendor and purchaser
— Priorities
— Contracts to sell mortgaged land
— Fee simple in mortgagees
— Priority between purchasers
— Equitable doctrine of conversion
— Right to “call for” title deeds
— Qui prior est tempore potior est jure. Vendor and Purchaser. Mortgage
— Law before 1926.