Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-7cvxr Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-26T04:02:40.145Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Ghana: Wills Act, 19711

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Abstract

Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Legislation
Copyright
Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1972

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

2 7 Will. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 26.

page 68 note 1 C.A. 9.

page 69 note 1 H. F. Morris, “Attitudes towards succession law in Nigeria during the colonial period,” [1970] J.A.L. 5–16.

page 69 note 2 Allott, A. N., Essays in African Law, London, 1960, 262264.Google Scholar

page 69 note 3 These rules were re-enacted in identical terms in 1966 (Courts Decree 1966, N.L.C.D. 84).

page 69 note 4 It may, however, be argued that this interpretation is too wide and that the purport of the rule was merely to reaffirm the existing position that family property might not be disposed of by will. See A. N. Allott, New Essays in African Law, London 1970, 136. See also Bennion, F. A. R., The Constitutional Law of Ghana, London, 1962, 453.Google Scholar

page 69 note 5 Act 372. For a general discussion of the Act, see note by A. N. Allott at pp. 59 ff, supra.

page 70 note 1 See [1970] J.A.L., 56–64.

page 70 note 2 See p. 82, infra.