Book
Fanti customary laws: a brief introduction to the principles of the native laws and customs of the Fanti and Akan Districts of the Gold Coast, with a report of some cases thereon decided in the law courts
William Clowes and Sons • London • Published In 1904 • Pages:
By: Sarbah, John Mensah.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study of Fanti customary law is the result of careful research through the judicial archives of the Supreme Court of the Gold Coast Colony. Descriptions of native customs relating to family, marriage, divorce, property, land tenure, suretyship, loans mortgages, sales, and inheritance are supplemented by abstracts of actual court cases. There is also information on political system and slavery. Included in the appendices are Royal Charters, Orders in Council, and Treaties which provided the legal framework for the British Occupation of the Gold Coast. Sarbah was a practicing lawyer before the Supreme Court of the colony.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Legal norms
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Akan
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Western Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Social Scientist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Robert Lee ; 1959
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Fanti; Ghana
- NotesAdditional notes
- by John Mensah Sarbah
- Includes index
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Akan (African peoples)