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Title:Chiefs and the law in Ghana
Author:Mensah-Brown, A.K.
Year:1969
Periodical:Journal of African Law
Volume:13
Issue:2
Pages:57-63
Language:English
Geographic term:Ghana
Subjects:traditional rulers
legislation
Abstract:This paper reviews briefly some of the measures which have been taken by the National Liberation Council and which affect the traditional rulers in Ghana today, notably a decree to amend the Chieftaincy Act, 1961, viz., the Chieftaincy (Amendment) Decree, 1966 (N.L.C.D. 112). Certain jurisprudential and cognate issues are examined.