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Meaning of customary law and whether a person subject to customary law is excluded from the operation of the Administration of Estates law on succession

The applicable rule in matters affecting natives

The native law and custom of Onitsha people with respect to the right to of a widow to inherit the property of her husband who died without a male child

The Voidness of Igbo Native Law and Custom which disentitles a female from inheriting in her late father's estate

Whether a custom that discriminates against female children in terms of inheritance is repugnant to natural justice, equity and good conscience.

Whether a custom that discriminates against women in terms of dealing in land and property is repugnant to natural justice, equity and good conscience

Whether a custom that permits only biological sons of a family to inherit their father's landed property is valid

Whether an only surviving male child born out of wedlock can inherit his maternal grandfather's property

Whether Moslem law can be regarded as native law and custom

Whether native law and custom includes moslem law

Whether native law and custom must be proved

whether the custom which allows a married woman, whose husband dies without a surviving son, to bring in another woman into the late husband's house, to enable the line of succession of the late husband to continue, is repugnant to natural justice, equity and good conscience

Whether the property of a man who died without a son can devolve to his female child under the Onitsha Native Law and Custom

Whether, under the Onitsha Native Law and Custom, the wife of the deceased member of a family could become the owner by virtue of long possession of the property of her deceased husband

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