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Whether a Chief whose recognition is withdrawn ceases to be a chief duly enstooled under customary law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