Women's property and succession thereto in modern Ibo law (Eastern Nigeria)

Abstract

In the few “matrilineal” societies of Afikpo and Ohafia, women have full legal capacity to own land (insofar as land can be owned by anyone in these areas);.and to transmit their rights and interests to others either inter vivosor at death.3 The discussion which follows must, therefore, be understood as relating exclusively to the patri-lineal societies which in fact constitute the bulk of Iboland.