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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

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 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Whether a Chief whose recognition is withdrawn ceases to be a chief duly enstooled under customary law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 chief's call can be equated to a subpoena

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

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

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

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