Abubaker v Principal Registrar of Crown Lands and Others (Civil Appeal No. 8 of 1953 and Miscellaneous Civil Suit No. 48 of 1952 (Consolidated)) [1953] EACA 51 (1 January 1953)

Crown Lands Ordinance (Cap. 155)—Mortgagee after purchase obtaining vesting
order from court—Municipalities Ordinance (Cap. 136) section 95—Premises
within Nairobi—Rates unpaid by mortgagor—Certificate by Town Clerk not
• produced—Refusal by Principal Officer of Crown Lands to register—Whether
refusal justified—Stamp Ordinance (Cap. 259) section 2—Definition of
"conveyance"—First Schedule Article 23—Whether vesting order liable to
ad valoreni duty.