Customary Law in Ghana case law.
40 passages under 7 sub-areas. Open a sub-area to read what the courts said, point by point.
Open in the Research toolApplication of customary law
3 passages · 3 cases
Customary arbitration
8 passages · 3 cases
- Attendance before a chief or elder on a complaint as evidence of submission
- Burden of proving a customary arbitration
- Essential characteristics of a valid customary arbitration
- Request to a chief or elder distinguished from submission to arbitration
- Weight of the evidence of a Tindana on a customary hearing
- Whether an admission at a customary hearing binds a person not shown to be a party
Customary gifts
12 passages · 5 cases
- Donor’s continued use of the gifted property
- Long possession as evidence of a gift
- Meaning and incidents of a gift inter vivos
- Modes of acceptance of a customary gift
- Proof of a gift from a deceased donor
- Proof of an old gift where the witnesses are dead
- Requirements of a valid customary gift of land
- Revocation of a perfected gift
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Customary sale of land
3 passages · 3 cases
Family property
8 passages · 4 cases
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