¹ For a previous discussion of other selected cases from these Reports, see [1957] J.A.L. 51 et seq.

² “No party shall be entitled to claim the benefit of any local law or custom if it shall appear either from express contract or from the nature of the transactions out of which any suit or question may have arisen, that such party agreed that his obligations in connection with such transactions should be regulated exclusively by English law” (proviso to present s. 87 (1) of the Courts Ordinance, cap. 4).

³ (1951), 13 W.A.C.A. 348.

^{page 127 note 1} (1948), 12 W.A.C.A. 371.

^{page 127 note 2} (1953),14 W.A.C.A. 254.

^{page 127 note 3} See [1957] J.A.L. 52.

^{page 127 note 4} (1950), 13 W.A.C.A. 8, W.A.C.A.; 13 W.A.C.A. 10, P.G.

^{page 128 note 1} (1916), P.C. Judgments, 1874–1928, 43.

^{page 128 note 2} (1949), 12 W.A.C.A. 435.

^{page 128 note 3} (1953), 14 W.A.C.A. 295.

^{page 128 note 4} (1946), 12 W.A.C.A. 81, at p. 87.

^{page 129 note 1} (1952), 14 W.A.C.A. 61.

^{page 129 note 2} Amodu Tijani v. Secretary, S. Nigeria, [1921] 2 A.C. 399.

^{page 129 note 3} (1916), P.C. Judgments, 1874–1928, 43, 44.

^{page 129 note 4} (1953), 14 W.A.C.A. 287.

^{page 129 note 5} (1950), 13 W.A.C.A. 191.

^{page 130 note 1} (1952), 14 W.A.C.A. 149.

^{page 130 note 2} [1896] 2 Ch. 788.

^{page 131 note 1} (1954), 14 W.A.C.A. 438.

^{page 131 note 2} (1952), 14 W.A.C.A. 178.

^{page 132 note 1} (1953), 14 W.A.C.A. 357.

^{page 132 note 2} (1948), 12 W.A.C.A. 350.

^{page 132 note 3} See A. N. Allott, “Kwasi v. Larbi, [1953] A.C. 164—Akan customary law of ‘arbitration’ in the Gold Coast”, (1953), 2 I.C.L.Q. 466.