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REPUBLIC
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LANDS COMMISSION; EX PARTE AKAINYAH

(1975) JELR 84753 (HC)

High Court 12 Jun 1975 Ghana
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- The applicant, a subject of the Samenyi stool and cousin to its chief, received a formal grant of 320 acres of stool land in appreciation for his free legal services, confirmed by the Omanhene of Western Nzima, and sought Lands Commission

Case Details

Judges:EDUSEI J.
Counsel:Applicant in person. A. D. Tagoe, State Attorney, for the respondents.
Location:Sekondi
Other Citations:[1975] 2 GLR 487- 496

JUDGEMENT

EDUSEI J.

This is an application by applicant to order the respondents to consent or concur in the assurance of land situate at Ebolo Adwoba on Samenyi stool land in Western Nzima. The Lands Commission, the respondents herein, have refused to give their consent to a conveyance executed by the applicant, as the grantee, and the stool of Samenyi in Western Nzima, as the grantors.This grant was confirmed by the Omanhene of Western Nzima. The grant covers an area of 320 acres.

In order to appreciate the ruling about to be delivered, I shall set out in extenso some of the paragraphs of the affidavit in support of the application, which I consider very material.These averments have not been denied by the respondents. The paragraphs are as follows:

"(2) I am Nzima by birth.

(3) Since 1965, I have given free legal aid to the stool of Samenyi, a town in Nzima in the Western Region.

(4) The aid I have been giving to the said stool includes both contentious and non-contentious matters, the m…

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