Land and the Mortgage

Land and the Mortgage
Author: Daivi Rodima-Taylor
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2022-02-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1800733496

The mortgaging of land is not just economic and legal but also social and cultural. Here, anthropologists, historians, and economists explore origins, variations, and meanings of the land mortgage, and the risks to homes and livelihoods. Combining findings from archives, printed records, and live ethnography, the book describes the changing and problematic assumptions surrounding mortgage. It shows how mortgages affect people on the ground, where local forms of mutuality mix with larger bureaucracies. The outcomes of mortgage in Africa, Europe, Asia, and America challenge economic development orthodoxies, calling for a human-centered exploration of this age-old institution.

A History of Indigenous Slavery in Ghana

A History of Indigenous Slavery in Ghana
Author: Akosua Adoma Perbi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2004
Genre: Affirmative action programs
ISBN:

Slavery has existed in nearly every society in the world at one time or another: the Romans practiced it and so did the Greeks. A History of Indigenous Slavery in Ghana examines slavery as it existed in Ghana until the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade began. Academic research and publication on indigenous slavery in Ghana and in Africa more widely have not received attention commensurate with the importance of the phenomenon: the history of indigenous slavery, which existed long before the trans-Atlantic slave trade, has been a marginal topic in documented historical, studies on Ghana. Yet its weighty historical, and contemporary relevance inside and outside Africa is undisputed. This book begins to redress this neglect. Drawing on sources including oral data from so-called slave descendants, cultural sites and trade routes, court records and colonial government reports, it presents historical and cultural analysis which aims to enhance historical knowledge and understanding of indigenous slavery. The author further intends to provide a holistic view of the indigenous institution of slavery as a formative factor in the social, political and economic development of precolonial Ghana.

Chiefs Know Their Boundaries

Chiefs Know Their Boundaries
Author: Sara Berry
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2001
Genre: Education
ISBN:

The essays in this volume explore changes and continuities in the ways people have made and exercised claims on land in Asante, Ghana.

Critical Perspectives in Politics and Socio-Economic Development in Ghana

Critical Perspectives in Politics and Socio-Economic Development in Ghana
Author: Wisdom J. Tettey
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 486
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9789004130135

This volume provides a comprehensive and integrated analysis of contemporary Ghanaian politics and economy and their relationship to culture. It combines rich, recent, empirical material with sophisticated theoretical analyses, bringing fresh and unique interdisciplinary perspectives to bear on the issues examined.

The World Court Reference Guide and Case-Law Digest

The World Court Reference Guide and Case-Law Digest
Author: Bimal Patel
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Total Pages: 1194
Release: 2014-04-10
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004261893

This single-volume comprehensive and systematic overview of procedural and organizational aspects of the jurisprudence of the World Court covers the period from 2001 to 2010 and includes case-law digests from 1992 to 2010; it identifies analytical patterns on various procedural judicial and non-judicial matters for the first time. The volume offers: Statements of initial claims as well as counter-claims of the contentious cases; Summarized details of all orders as well as the duration of the oral and written proceedings; Summaries and headnotes, texts of the operative and final paragraphs of all judicial decisions, the composition of the Court and declarations and opinions of its Members; Systematic reference on Sources of Law; Coverage of the composition of the Litigation teams, and much more. This work will be an indispensable reference tool for international and national judicial and quasi-judicial bodies, lawyers and law firms, and academicians alike. It will prove to be a very useful source for research on and analysis of the jurisprudence of the World Court. Excerpt from the Foreword to this Volume by H. E. Judge Peter Tomka, President, ICJ: “Mr Bimal Patel has assembled an impressive compilation of both institutions’ respective case load, spanning a period of 88 years; namely, from the inception of the PCIJ in 1922 to the ICJ’s recent activities, providing coverage up until 31 December 2010. Patel’s work provides us with succinct but accurate freeze-framed accounts of the contentious and advisory proceedings that made their way from the Court’s docket into orders, advisory opinions and judgments, thereby presenting a completed puzzle of the Court’s work.."

International Law Reports

International Law Reports
Author: E. Lauterpacht
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 834
Release: 1994-09-29
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780521472920

The only publication wholly devoted to the regular and systematic reporting in English of decisions of international courts and arbitrators.