JUDGMENT
Francois J.A.
Two hundred years ago, when land was cheap and plentiful, and the scramble for it has not reached the proportions which assail us in our age and time, the plaintiff-respondent's (hereafter referred to as the plaintiff) ancestors acquired a piece of land at Okaase, in an area lying between Akropong and Larteh. The plaintiff's traditional account was that the acquisition was by purchase from a Larteh man called Oyeade. With the passage of time and the consequent erosion of details from human memory, the particulars of acquisition have become blurred and so although the fact of alienation cannot be confidently controverted, it cannot also be said that the plaintiff and her witnesses sang in unison the song of acquisition. Indeed there was evident disharmony in the chorus of voices, with the strains of purchase, gift and licence, competing with each other and creating a muted discord.
The first issue in this appeal therefore, which is argued with force by counsel for …