the equitable doctrine of laches, acquiescence, estoppel, stale claim and standing-by. Katsina-Alu JCA adduced three reasons for the enactment of the statute. These according to him include: a. That long dormant claims have more of cruelty than justice in them; b. That a defendant might have lost the evidence to disprove a stale claim. This is especially so as many land transactions are oral; c. That a person with good cause of action should pursue it with reasonable diligence. Another reason stated in the “English Report of the Committee on Limitation of Actions in Cases of Personal Injury” is that the law is intended to ensure that a person may with confidence feel that after a given time he may treat as being finally closed an incident which might have led to a claim against him. Again, given that most lands in Nigeria are under the unregistered title system which makes investigation of title very cumbrous and tasking, the fact that adverse possession can extinguish earlier rights to possession cheapens investigation of title to land and facilitates conveyancing. Morality of Limitation Law Even though limitation statutes are unequivocal on the effect of a successful plea of its provisions, some people who are not vast in law and a number of judges find it difficult to come to term with the reality that a landowner may lose his land to a wrongdoer without the landowner‟s knowledge that an adverse possessor occupies his land. It need be said that morality is not the only virtue the law advocates. There is also the virtue of public policy, and government‟s policy on land use. Parliament says that land should be used and not banked. Calculating the Period For many centuries, action for recovery of land was statute-barred after 12 years. In effect,