Court: Court of Appeal
Year: 1972
Principle(s): Lands in Kokomlemle are owned by the Ga, Gbese, and Korle stools. All three stools must consent and concur before any valid alienation of land can be made.
Court: Supreme Court
Year: 1987-88
Principle(s): In determining who owns land (allodial title), the courts look at evidence such as past grants of the land, claims of title and resistance to such claims, among others. Allodial title can be lost by acquiescence; Family can be hold allodial title; Innocent purchaser for value without notice; Meaning of adverse possession.
Court: Court of Appeal
Year: 1905
Principle(s): 1. No land is ownerless. 2. Land may be owned by a paramount stool, a subordinate stool, the family, or an individual. 3. Subjects of a stool have the right to use stool lands.
Court: High Court
Year: 1957
Principle(s): 1. Stool has the allodial title to stool land; 2. A subject can obtain a usufruct in stool land by cultivating virgin stool land. 3. A subject can alienate his usufruct to another subject without the consent of the stool. 4. It is better for the stool to give a lease of a stool's land to a stranger than for the stranger to acquire a usufruct from a subject. 5. If the stool alienates land over which a subject has a usufruct but does not obtain the consent and concurrence of the usufruct, the alienation is of no effect.
Court: Supreme Court
Year: 2010
Principle(s): A family can be a holder of an allodial title; Acts of ownership are evidence of being the allodial title holder; Conquest, settlement, and adverse possession are means of acquiring allodial title; Allodial title may be lost be acquiescence
Court: Supreme Court
Year: 1989-1990
Principle(s): A sub-stool can hold an allodial interest.
Court: Court of Appeal
Year: 1967
Principle(s): 1. The allodial interest in a land can be owned by the stool, tribe, family, or individual. 2. In the present case, the families own allodial interests in lands in Ningo. 3. When a licensee denies the title of his licensor, the licensor is entitled to eject him.