COURT SIGNATURE AND STAMP ON LAND/BUILDING PURCHASE DOCUMENT HAS NO LEGAL VALUE

COURT SIGNATURE AND STAMP ON LAND/BUILDING PURCHASE DOCUMENT HAS NO LEGAL VALUE

Court stamp does not authenticate a land/house purchase document and a court’s signature does not magically create ownership.

Across Nigeria, many land and building buyers are still being misled into believing that once a Magistrate or Court signs and stamps their purchase documents, their ownership is secured. That is an expensive lie.

A Magistrate or Court has no legal role in validating land or building purchase Agreements. Courts do not authenticate sales, they resolve disputes.

A judicial stamp on your purchase document adds zero legal value to your ownership and does not cure defective documents, fraudulent sale or any issue at all.

Yet this practice keeps thriving because it looks official. Unsuspecting buyers are taken to court registry, charged illegal fees and their purchase documents signed and stamped with authority they do not legally have.

What you get is not protection, but a false sense of security.

Ownership of land or building is secured by proper due diligence (investigation) including confirmation of ownership by a Property Lawyer who will also draft the sale Agreement, proper signing by the parties and compliance with legal requirements.

No court stamp or signature can replace investigation or legality.

If a transaction is bad, no court signature or stamp can save it. If it is good, no court stamp and signature is needed.

Follow the law, not illusion.

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