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Burden of proof on a claimant where the land in dispute is accepted by both parties as originally family land

Distinction between the right of possession and the right of ownership of family land

Effect of a conveyance of family land as personal property

Effect of a deed of conveyance, mortgage or lease of family land executed by the head and another member of the family, without the knowledge and consent of all the principal members of the family

Effect of building on vacant family land

Effect of the alienation of family land not done by the head of the family

Effect of the grant of family land to a headman

How family land ceases to be such

Meaning and incidents of family land

Nature of family land under yoruba native law and custom

Nature of land in the family which has not yet been partitioned

Need to identify the specific family unit that owns the property in disputes involving family land

On whom lies ownership of family land

Party that can bring an action for alienation of title to land without his consent obtained

Position of the law on the effect of a family land

Position of the law where a party asserts exclusive ownership or possession against a family in respect of family land

The nature of interest retained by a family member who builds on family land with his private resources

The position of the law on the alienation of family lands in Ghana

The position of the law where the member of a family builds on family land

The rule that the head of family has the responsibility to protect family lands

When a sale of family land will be valid

When an individual can acquire title to a family land

Whether a chief has authority to grant family land

Whether a family can permit family property to be mortgaged

Whether a grandchild has a right of inheritance in family land

Whether a headman has a right to alienate family land

Whether a member of a family who made improvements to family land using his own private resources can alienate his interest therein

Whether allocation of family land to build for residential purposes passes ownership

Whether an order of injunction can be made to protect a family member's use of part of unpartitioned land

Whether families allocate unspecified or unlimited plots of land to persons

Whether family land is usually divided among family members

Whether individual ownership of plots of family land is permissible under native law and custom

Whether land which was developed by a member of a family on a family land changes the family character or nature of the property

Whether members of a family have a general right of ingress and egress over family land

Whether members of a family in possession of family land can be dispossessed of the lands by the customary successor

Whether members of a family who failed to show title of the land in themselves, but concede that it is still in the family can be allowed to rely on the title of the family to defeat the claim of a third party who claimed to have derived her title from the family

Whether members of a family, other than the head of the family, can institute suits for the recovery of family land

Whether occupation and making improvements on family land amounts to ownership of the land

Whether the court can grant an injunction against a member of a family in respect of family land which has not been partitioned

Whether the fact that an acquisition of land has not been documented clothes the land with the character of family land

Whether the family or the widow has unilateral right of alienation in respect of family land

Whether the head of the family or a family member can alienate family property as his own private property under Yoruba customary law

Whether the right of possession or allotment can mature into ownership of family land

Whether title acquired by alienation of family land is an absolute one

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