The system of registration in Ghana

Abstract

The original and primary owners of lands in. Ghana are the stools or skins. Families and individuals do own lands, the original titles to which are derived from stools or skins- Before 1957, all lands of what was called the Northern Territories were held in trust for the chiefs of the Northern Territories try the Governor whilst Ashanti lands, having being occupied as a result of conquest, were British Crown lands. In the South, then called the Colony, the position has always been normal, that is, only stools, indigenous families, own lands except when there has been a sale, lease or concession to an alien concerned.