This is an examination of the circumstances in which, according to legal authorities, land may become family land in the customary law of Ghana.3 There may occasionally be difficulty in discovering whether the acquisition was by a wider family or by a branch (or segment) of it, since each such smaller group constitutes a “family†for different purposes. Normall...

This is an examination of the circumstances in which, according to legal authorities, land may become family land in the customary law of Ghana.3 There may occasionally be difficulty in discovering whether the acquisition was by a wider family or by a branch (or segment) of it, since each such smaller group constitutes a “family†for different purposes. Normall...