The Law Reports (Appeal Cases)
[1955] AC 215
[JUDICIAL COMMITTEE]
ANTONIO ASSAF APPELLANT; AND DANIEL OLATUNJI FUWA AND OTHERS RESPONDENTS.
ON APPEAL FROM THE WEST AFRICAN COURT OF APPEAL.
1954 Oct. 4.
LORD PORTER, LORD ASQUITH OF BISHOPSTONE and 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.