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Categories of chiefs

Condition to be satisfied for a person to qualify as a chief

Customary functions of a chief

Definition of a chief

How the presumption of the valid nomination and election of a chief can be rebutted

How to prove that a particular person is a chief

Presumption that a person whose name appears in the national register of chiefs is presumed to have been properly nominated and or elected by the appropriate and authorized traditional authorities

Statutory functions of a chief

The position of a chief in relation to communal land

The position of the law on the status of a chief

When a chief will be qualified to perform statutory functions

Whether a Chief must cease to perform as a Chief once he has been served with an application for interim injunction

Whether a chief must have his name in the National Register of Chiefs before he can sue or be sued on behalf of the stool

Whether a chief or the occupant of a stool can be called upon to account for money belonging to occupants of stool lands

Whether a chief's call can be equated to a subpoena

Whether a chief whose position was derived from customary law and usage is a chief properly so called

Whether a Chief whose recognition is withdrawn ceases to be a chief duly enstooled under customary law

Whether a claim to be declared a Hlotator is a claim to be declared a chief

Whether a gazette notice puts a final seal on the validity of the person’s status as a chief

Whether an “honourary chief” is a chief recognised by the Chieftaincy Act, 2008 (Act 759)

Whether a person ceases to be a chief because he has not sworn an oath of allegiance before his overlord or the Paramount Chief

Whether a person's failure to honour the call of a chief amounts to disrespecting the chief

Whether a person who has been validly made a chief in accordance with appropriate customary law and usage cannot exercise customary functions relating to his stool or skin until his name appears in the National Register of Chiefs

Whether gazetting a chief or putting his name on the Register of Chiefs puts a finality to the status of that person

Whether individual chiefs have judicial functions

Whether it is the gazetting of the person or having a person's name in the National Register of Chiefs that makes him a chief

Whether the determination of who is a chief can be made by the courts

Whether the government pass an Act to install a chief who has been customarily destooled

Whether the heads and leaders of migrant communities are chiefs

Whether the headship of the Moshie community is a chief

Whether the law recognises the position of a chief as a position importing certain rights and powers

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