Family Property among the Yoruba

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ID16767668
AuthorsP C Lloyd (corresponding author)
Year1959
Volume3
Issue2
Pages105-115
Publication date1959-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of African Law (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0221-8553 • E-ISSN: 1464-3731
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/s0021855300007506
OpenAlexW1985172633
LanguageEN
Citations received4

“The land is family land—he may not sell it”; “the land is our family land—it does not belong to the chiefs”. How often such statements are heard in West African courts and how difficult it is to distinguish the rights claimed by the individual, the family and the community. To resolve this difficulty is the task which Dr. G. B. A. Coker has set himself in his recently published book Family Property among the Yorubas . 2 In this contribution to the rapidly growing number of books on African law the author writes of a single people—the Yoruba of Western Nigeria, and of a single topic—family property; this is no light task, for the study of the concept of family property is the study of the social and political structure of the people as expressed in their land tenure

Agriculture · Epistemology · Family law · Genealogy · Geography · Land law · Land tenure · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Property (philosophy) · Property law · Property rights · Set (abstract data type) · Sociology · Task (project management) · Yoruba · Computer Science · Engineering · History · Land Rights and Reforms · Law · Legal Issues in South Africa · Philosophy

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