"First published by Sakumo Publishers, 2005"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Part 1: Introduction: Chapter 1: General considerations: The role of conveyancing -- The General framework -- Development of customary law through the courts -- Evolution of the native courts -- Development of customary law by jurists -- Absence of codification -- New proprietary attitudes -- Prescription -- The property law and succession -- Chapter 2: Characteristics of land: The nature of land -- Accession -- Minerals -- Perculiarities of land -- Perculiarities of land -- Permanence -- Fixity -- Imperishability -- Safety -- Limited supply and competition -- Income and capital value -- Necessity -- Title -- Relativity and security of titles -- Ownership -- Estates -- Tenure -- Legal estates and equitable interests -- Entry upon land and possession -- The shield of effective possession -- Abandonment -- Waste -- Improvements -- The doctrine of no ownerless lands in Ghana -- Part 2: Interests in land: Chapter 3: Interests in land: Interests in community -- The allodial title -- Land as a trust -- Stool and skin lands -- Where several stools share the allodial title -- Chapter 4: The allodial interest: Methods of acquisition -- Loss of the allodial title -- Vacant communal land -- Developed communal land -- Customary service and allegiance -- Land granted by communities to strangers -- Accountability of the stool occupant and the role of the head of family during alienation -- The stool and the allodial title -- Incidents of ownership by the community -- The sub-paramount title -- Chapter 5: The customary law freehold -- Development of the customary law freehold -- Grants to a stranger -- Rules relating to the grant of freeholds from allodial lands -- Actual enjoyment of lands by the individual -- Stranger -- The customary law freehold and acquiescence -- Chapter 6: Tenancies: Abusa and abunu tenancies -- Capacity -- Succession to tenancy -- Forteiture -- Seasonal tenure -- Security of tenancy -- Gratuitous tenancies and licences -- Chapter 7: Pledge or hypothecation: Nature of a pledge -- Legislative intervention -- Part 3: The family: Chapter 8: The family in customary law: Types of family -- The matrilineal family -- The patrilineal family -- Legal implication of family membership -- Common ownership of property -- Common liability to pay family debts -- Common rights of representation at a family meeting -- The nature of family property -- The head of family -- Election or appointment of head of family -- Popular acclamation or informal appointment of the head of family -- The oldest member as head of family -- Duties of the head of family -- Removal of the head of family from office -- Accountability of the head of family -- Acquisition of family property -- Creation of family -- Failure of the head of family to act -- Rights to property within the nuclear family -- Part 4: Transfer of interests in land: Chapter 9: Alienation of interests in land: Alienation of interests in land -- Caveat emptor -- Modes of alienation -- Inspection and publicity -- Demarcation -- Customary formalities for the alienation of land -- Guaha -- Shikpon yibaafo -- Capacity to alienate -- Alienation by stool -- The chief -- Alienation of family land -- The requirement of consent -- Chapter 10: Alienation by gift: Nature of a gift -- Part 5: Principles applicable to land rights: Chapter 11: Prescription and estoppel -- Limitation of actions -- The doctrine of estoppel by acquiescence -- Acquiescence as a customary law doctrine -- Laches -- Waiver of title -- Res judicata -- Estoppel by standing by during litigation -- Part 6: Land and the state: Chapter 12: Land and the state: Public control of land in traditional society -- State control of ownership -- The state and security of tenure -- History of land registration in Ghana -- The Land Registry Act, 1962 -- Conveyancing and private ownership -- The Conveyancing Decree, 1973 (N.R.C.D. 175) -- The Land Development (Protection of Purchasers) Act, 1960 -- The Lands Commission -- The Lands Titles Registry -- Chapter 13: Land title registration -- The Land Title Registry -- Problems in the process of registration -- The effect of registration -- Procecures -- Searches -- Trusts, transmission and dealings with registered land -- Land certificate, rectification and indemnity.