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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

Need to identify the specific family unit that owns the property in disputes involving 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 principle that apart from traditional evidence, possession is the other means of establishing ownership of a family land

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

Whether a chief has authority to grant family land

Whether a family can permit family property to be mortgaged

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

Whether family land is usually divided among family members

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

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

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

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