ABSTRACT
With the advent of peaceful times, the people who were settled on the land acquired it as of right. Boundaries between other settlements were decided by hunting rights, marked trees and hunters’ camps gradually defining the boundaries. Other people, whether Akims or not and whether under the same Omanhene or not, can farm by being given land by relatives, or even by a landlord if settled in the village. Otherwise land may be bought, taken on a one-third contract system, or given by permission of the chief, in which case the farmer assumes the same responsibility as a citizen, paying tribute and assisting in communal work. If a farmer is a native of the village he acquires permanent rights over the land, and his farms are inherited according to native custom, which is matrilineal. If the farmer is not a native and he has acquired land lay purchase he has permanent rights.
