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: Court
Year: 1957
Principle(s): Rights of Usufruct, Means of Acquiring Allodial Title, Alienation of Family Property, Termination of Usufructuary Title
Court: Privy Council
Year: 1961
Principle(s): Native law or custom in Ghana has progressed so far as to transform the usufructuary right, once it has been reduced into possession, into an estate or interest in the land which the subject can use and deal with as his own, so long as he does not prejudice the right of the paramount stool to its customary services
Court: Privy Council
Year: 1961
Principle(s): Meaning of allodial title; rights of usufructuaries; sale as a means of losing allodial title