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The Influence of English Law on West Africa1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

N. A. Ollennu
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West Africa is a vast area consisting of many territories; of those five have come under the influence of the English law; four of these are within the Commonwealth, one is outside it. The four Commonwealth West African countries are: Gambia, Sierra Leone (which is to become independent early next year), the Republic of Ghana, and the Federation of Nigeria (which attained its independence on 1st October, 1960); the one non-Commonwealth country is the Republic of Liberia, the oldest independent state in West Africa.

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Journal of African Law , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , Spring 1961 , pp. 21 - 35
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1961

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References

page 25 note 1 op. cit., I, 186–7.

page 25 note 2 Cruickshank, op. cit., I, 187.

page 26 note 1 Yerenchi v. Akufo. Ren. 362, at 367.

page 27 note 1 Kweku Kodieh v. Nana Kwami Affram, 1 W.A.C.A. 12, at p. 14.

page 28 note 1 Kuma v. Kuma, 5 W.A.C.A. 4.

page 28 note 2 P.C. 1874–1928, 43.

page 28 note 3 Ren. 362, 374.

page 30 note 1 6 W.A.C.A. 141.

page 30 note 2 Section 15.

page 32 note 1 Section 15.