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Material on Ghana
- Papers on legal aspects of law and correspondence.
- Papers on the law of succession and slavery.
- Essay on the Dagomba People, AA Blair.
- Minutes of the Joint Provincial Council, Southern Ghana.
- Pamphlets on marriage, divorce, and succession in Ghana, (in various languages).
- Research papers on cocoa farmers in Ghana (various regions).
Material on Kenya I
- Thesis: Social organisation of the Boran of North Kenya, PTW Baxter.
- Papers on Kipsigis African District Council.
- Notes on Masai, by LSB Leakey.
- Papers of the RALP - survey of literature.
- Church of Scotland: Memorandum prepared by the Kikuyu
- Mission Council on female circumcision.
Material on Tanganyika I
- Digest of Appeals from Local Courts.
- Copy of bill to make better provision for Local Courts and other papers.
- Tanganyika Independence Act.
- Proposals of the Tanganyika Government for a Republic.
- List of Tanganyika tribes
- File: incoming inventory forms and materials on Tanganyika laws.
- File: list of Local Court materials in Government Offices.
- Materials on customary courts.
Material on Nigeria
- Materials on Customary and High Courts, Nigeria.
- Acts of Parliament
- Chart of North Nigerian High Court organisation
- File: Nylander, North Nigeria, marriage and divorce
- Biromi [File by Arthur Nylander with research on marriage and divorce laws of the Biromi tribe of N...
- File: Report by A Nylander on marriage and divorce laws of the Kanuri tribe.
Material on Sierra Leone
- File: Notes on native laws on marriage and divorce in Limba.
- File: Notes on native laws on marriage and divorce in Konkomba.
- File: Notes on native laws on marriage and divorce in Kono
- File: Notes on native law of succession in Kono.
- File: Notes on Mende law of persons.
- File: Draft restatement on Mende customary law and succession.
- File: Draft restatement of Susu customary law of marriage.
- File: Sierra Leone drafts, typescript on various laws.
- File: Sierra Leone drafts, mss. III.
Material on Tanzania: 'Tanzania Land Tenure I'
- Review of land tenure policy.
- Typescript notes on legal cases.
- File: A report on the present state of the Chagga land tenure practice, TF Figgis.
- Typescript notes on land tenure.
- Typescript: Luguru lands and lineages, HA Fosbrooke.
- Pamphlet: A memorandum on native land tenure, RC Northcote.
- Book: Report on social and economic conditions in the
- Tanganyika Province, EC Baker.
- Pamphlet: The Meru land problem.
- Book: Report of the Arusha-Moshi Lands Communion.
Material on various African countries
- Typescript and manuscript notes on 'The general principles of criminalresponsibility' in Nigeria, Ma...
- Manuscript notes and press cuttings.
- Papers of CK Meek on native, colonial, and judicial law.
- Typescript notes on law systems: Muhammadan, Anglo-saxon etc.
- Notes on liability in Sierra Leone.
Material on Tanganyika II
- Inventories of customary law materials (collected as part of the RALP project).
- Typescript and manuscript notes on marriage and divorce laws in various areas
- Copies of legal cases.
- Notes on the Wapare tribe, W Fryer.
- Notes on clans and lineages in the Usambaras (Lushoto) tribe
Material on Customary Law
- File: 'Customary law of marriage and succession among the Kom of Cameroon', John Anthony Howard.
- Carbon paper typescript on 'The code of customary law of Acchele Guzai', and notes.
- Correspondence re. Ethiopian law.
- File: Draft restatement of Mende customary law of succession, Sierra Leone?.
- File: Draft restatement of Susu law of Marriage, Sierra Leone
Material on Nigeria and Ghana
- Manuscript and typescript notes on formation of marriage.
- Typescript notes on Nupe native marriage law and custom.
- General notes on marriage laws of various tribes in Nigeria, with correspondence.
- Notes on law of persons of various tribes in Nigeria.
- Files containing information on marriage and divorce in Nigeria
- Typescript: 'John Mensah Sarbah, 1864-1910, His life and works', by Hon. Mr Justice Azu Crabbe, Just...
- File: papers on the Gold Coast (Ghana).
- Correspondence related to the Sarbah Study Group.
- File: notices for London seminars etc. (Include discussion of the Congo).
Material on Kenya II
- File: typescript notes on legal cases in Kenyan Native Courts,inventories of customary law materials...
- File: 'Kenya-North Nyanza District - Kakanega', includes minutes of Western Local Law Committee, Apr...
- File: 'Kenya-North Nyanza District - Kakanega', includes copy of byelaws 1956; Local Native Councils...
Material on Tanganyika II
- Files of information on local customs (land tenure and marriage etc.)
Material on Tanganyika, Kenya, and Uganda
- File: Tanganyika, Mkerewe and Musoma Districts, inventories of customary law materials and legal cas...
- File: Tanganyika, North Mara District - Tarime, legal cases.
- Typescript of 'The age system of the Masai', B. Bernardi.
- File: Kenya, Machokos and Ngong, inventories of customary law materials, byelaws of Machokos African...
- Notes on Taveta customary law.
- Notes on Pokomo customary law.
- Inventories of customary law materials for various parts of Kenya
- Typescript of 'Bantu of North Kavirondo' [Kenya], vol II, part v: Cattle Law, Dr Gunter Wagner.
- File: notes on various legal cases, with fines due, in Acholi District (Uganda ?).
- File: notes on land tenure in Kamasia, Baringo.
Material on Tanganyika III
- Papers on customary law, legal cases, inventories of materials etc. of various Tanganyika districts
  - Arusha
  - Digest of Appeals - Mbulu District
  - History of Uluguru, Rev. Father CJ Mzuanda
  - Notes on Uluguru, JS Harris.
  - A Digest of Uluguru Customary Law, John Lewis-Barned.
  - Notes on land tenure/ marriage etc. in:
  - Nguru, Ulanga, Rufiju, Barabaig tribe
  - Mbulu District
  - Moshi District.
Material on Tanganyika IV
- The wealth of a nation: opinions on the land', Julius K Nyerere.
- Sociological study of Landhage in the Highland Areas of Northern Tanganyika.
- Land law in Tanganyika, AN Allott, Advanced Seminar in African Law
- Interim report on land and population in the Arusha
- Chiefdom, PH Gulliver.
- Notes on African land tenure in: Bodoma District - Gogo tribe, Bagamoyo District - Kwere tribe, Gogo...
- Notes on marriage and divorce, Bagamoyo.
- Some aspects of political organisation and land tenure among the Iraqw, EH Winter.
- Landlord and Tenant Rules: Buhoba District (in an African language with translation).
- Map of part of Tanganyika showing different tribes.
- 5 circular letters from Robert F Gray describing Arusha.
- A review of the first two years of land reform in Bugufi Chiefdom.
Material on Sierra Leone and Tanganyika.
- Files on Sierra Leone and Tanganyika
- Transcripts of recordings
Material on Nigeria and Cameroon.
- File: Notes on Igbirra Division land tenure.
- Notes on Bassa Koro native marriage, law and custom.
- Manuscript notes on legal problems in North Nigeria, and papers concerning various cases.
- Manuscript notes on Nigerian Native Courts.
- Correspondence with Nigerian Government Officials.
- Copies of Nigerian House of Assembly and House of Chiefs Debates, and law reports.
- File: papers on Igbirra declaration of marriage law.
- File: papers on Igala declaration of marriage and divorce law.
- Chapters 9-16 of JA Howard's thesis on the Kom of the Cameroon.
Material on Uganda and Ghana
- Bibliography of land tenure, Ministry of Land Tenure, Uganda Protectorate.
- File: 'Recent development in customary Kisoga land tenure', JT Fleming (Uganda).
- (2 copies, one with manuscript amendments).
- File: 'Restatement of African Law: Northern Ghana: i. Marriage and Divorce, ii. Succession', A Nylan...
- The Public Lands Ordinance 1962, Uganda Protectorate.
- File: contains Chapters 12-16 of a work on customary law.
- File: notes on draft restatement of Mende laws of marriage and divorce, (no country).
Material on Ghana II ('Original Ghana Material')
- File: 'Togoland: Provisional Questionnaire answers', information on Gold Coast.
- 2 files containing cases of appeal from Native Courts, Ghana.
- Cases from Municipal Court of Cape Coast.
- Cases from Native and Local Courts.
- Typescript notes on marriage byelaws in Enyan Abasa State.
- History of legislation in connection with native jurisdiction in the Gold Coast and suggested amendm...
Material on Malwai
- Typescript notes on 'The Tumbuka of Rumpi District'
Material on Sierra Leone and Kenya.
- File: notes on Sierra Leone legal cases.
- File: notes on Sierra Leone legal cases - Makeni.
- File: Inventories of Customary Law materials for Kiambu
- District, Kenya, and typescript notes on law in area.
- File: Inventories of Customary law materials for Nyeri and Fort Hall Districts, Kenya, typescript on...
- File: Inventories of Customary law materials for Embu and Meru Districts, Kenya, papers on land cons...
Material on Ghana and Northern Rhodesia
- Typescript notes on the Dagomba of Northern Ghana, on customary law.
- Typescript notes on the Kasena.
- Draft restatement of the Konkomba customary law of marriage and divorce, Arthur Nylander.
- Typescript notes on various tribes in Ghana: Kusasi, Mamprusi, Nankani, Tallensi, Namnan, Gonja.
- Typescript of legal cases before Native Courts, includes press cuttings of legal cases, corresponden...
'Meek Papers 7'
- Correspondence, manuscript and typescript notes, government reports etc. including: Report of Commit...
- Notes on Sudan land law.
- File: 'Customary law advisory panels', copy correspondence between the Secretary of State and Sierra...
- Essay by DA Shenku on Regulations governing control of cattle grazing rights, Bombali region.
- Essays on marriage and divorce in Kono District, Yoni area.
Material on Sierra Leone
- Typescript of various legal cases, Bagbo Chiefdom and others.
- Reports of the Commissioners of Enquiry into the conduct of certain chiefs and the Government statem...
- Minutes of the first meeting of the South Western Province Customary Law Advisory Panel held at Bo.
Minutes of Restatement of African Law Project meetings and material on various countries
- File: Tiv laws of persons and family structure.
- Typescript: Chapters 4-6 of 'Nigeria (Northern)I, Keay, a Restatement of African Law Project Publica...
- File: Restatements on marriage etc.
- File: Notes on the Chagga of Tanganyika, FJ Woodley.
- File: Notes on the Arusha District, Tanganyika, FJ Woodley.
- File: Inventories of customary law materials, Uganda.
- File: Minutes of the fourth meeting of West Nile District Council, Uganda.
- Loose correspondence arranging activities.
- File: land tenure in Northern Rhodesia, papers.
- Free consent in African Marriage, Dr Lucy Mair, Anti-Slavery Society.
- Photocopies of articles on African law.
- Monthly Bulletin of judgements and orders of the High Court of Uganda. (5 vols)
- Research project on Diola land law, Francis G Synder.
- Muslim and non-muslim in Africa: conflict of laws, JND Anderson.
- Rights of the Crown in Northern Nigeria, CM McDowell.
- Some preliminary notes on customary law marriage in Zambia, Dr CMN White.
- The land of Kenenda-background to the case...Karoland, North Sumatra, G van der Steenhoven.
- Statutes of General Application in East Africa, John Erickson.
- File: transcript of the Kule law panel, Paul Davitt.
- The development of undergraduate studies in the Department of Law at the School of Oriental and Afri...
- Notes, press cuttings, Acts of Parliament on Nigerian legal system.
- Loose correspondence.
- Marriage and problems of internal conflict in Malawi, David Gray.
- Various case reports.
- Selected cases from the Area Courts of the Province of Katsina, vol III, North Nigeria.
- Minutes of meetings of the Study Group of Codification of Family Law.
- File: Nyasaland - Bulambia, Misuku, marriage, JO Ibik.
- File: Nyasaland - Achewa, Angoni, marriage, JO Ibik.
- Volume: The Council of Elders in the Igbo traditional society: a pattern for pastoral council in Afr...
- Typescript: 'Mother Right in East Africa', 4 essays on status of women in Tanganyika, UR Ehrenfels.
- Volume: Essai sur le droit de propriéte foncière à Madagascar: droit cotumier et droit moderne, R...
- Memoranda on Bibliography of African Law.
- Methods and forms of investigating and recording of Native Customary Law in the Netherlands East Ind...
- Minutes of the Colloquium on African law.
- Papers re. drafting a Code of Civil Wrongs, Meetings.
- Various photocopied articles on African law including:
- AN Allott and E Cotran, A background statement on restatement of laws in Africa
- Marriage laws in a colonial setting: East Africa.
- Minutes of meetings of Restatement of African Law Project.
- File: Inventories of customary law materials, Zanzibar, and reports of legal cases.
- Minutes of meetings of Restatement of African Law Project Editorial Committee.
- Minutes of meetings of Restatement of African Law Project African Law Section of SOAS.
- File: Papers of Conference on Law and Social Change in East Africa, held at Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
- Report on cooperation and certain aspects of the economic condition of agriculture in Zanzibar, CF S...
- History and customs of the Wagogo of Tanganyika, Mathias E Mnyampala, (in Swahili).
- Law reports: Court of Review, Kenya, vols 1-8.
- 2 pamphlets on land in Zanzibar.
- Basutoland: native laws of Lerotholi, as amended by the National Council of 1922.
- The Church of Basutoland: its constitution, rules and regulations.
- New native court regulations, Basutoland.
- The Abaluyia of Nyanza Province, Kenya, JD Otiende, (in swahili).
- Geneve-Afrique: Acta Africana, vol IV, 1.
- Standing orders for African Courts, Kenya.
- Luo:Clans of Central Nyanza, S Malo (in luo/swahili).
- Luo: Kitgi gi Timbegi, Paul Mboya, (Customs and law).
- The daily life of an African Peasant Farmer in Kenya.
- Land tenure Commission Report, Kenya.
- An administrative and political history of the Masai Reserve, (Kenya), London.
- Reports on visits to South Africa to study land tenure.
- The systems of land tenure in the Kikuyu', land unit, HE Lambert, on Kenya, South Africa.
- Two studies in applied anthropology in Kenya, Philip Mayer.
- Nandi: work and culture', on Kenya.
- File: Notes and instructions for guidance of African courts,
- File: Kenya Law Panels-discussion of laws of succession.
- Journal of African Administration', vol IX (2).
- Minutes of the Restatement of African Law Project Meetings.
- File: Minutes of the Restatement of African Law Project
- Meetings and Editorial Committee. Papers re. Study Group and Conference on 'Unification and Codifica...
- Volume: Buganda native laws and laws administered by the Buganda Courts: additions and amendments 19...
- File: An administrative survey of the Ngoni and Ndendeuli of Songea District, Tanganyika, PH Gullive...
- Restatement of Kikuyu laws of wrong, Kenya, RL Abel.
- Typescript on Kenya tribes laws of wrong: Kipsigis, Nandi, Gusii, Luo, Kamba, Masai.
- Gambia bibliography.
- Internal conflict of laws in East Africa, GF Akilagpa Sawyerr.
- Typescript: John Mensah Sarbah 1864, Hon Mr Justice Azu Crabbe.
- Draft code of Family Law, SOAS, African Law Section.
- Typescript: Domicile in Nigerian Law: a functional analysis, IO Agbede.
- File: Law Reports, cases in Uganda.
- African congress on the rule of law: notes on Uganda and on judicial system, RW Cannon.
- Native Courts Ordinance: regulations.
- 'A short note on the Customary laws of the Aweil District
- Dinkas', JM Stubbs, Sudan.
- Notes on customary law/land tenure in Sudan.
- Minutes of Restatement of African Law Project Meetings,
- African Law Section Meetings (duplicates?).
- Report on African legal studies in the UK.
- Notes on Tanganyika land tenure.
- Copies of customary court judgements.
- Some modern developments in customary land law, PC Lloyd.
- Notes on law in Nigeria.
- Notes on law in Ghana.
- Ghana Parliamentary Debates.
- The Ashanti law of property, Antony N Allott
- Luganda: Busoga land tenure, DW Robertson, in swahili.
- Bibliographical introduction to legal history and ethnography: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, James S Read...
- The Western Lacustrine Bantu, Brian K Taylor.
- History of customs of the Jo Padhola, ACK Oboth-Ofumbi, Uganda, in lwo/ludana.
- Various publications on legal systems/courts in various African countries, especially Uganda.
- Annual Report for the year 1970 of the Uganda Law Development Centre
- North Ghana, marriage and divorce, Dagombas.
- 9 files on marriage and divorce of tribes in Ghana: Frafra, Gonjas, Kassenas, Konkomba, Kusasis, Mam...
- 4 files on law of succession of tribes in Ghana: Gonjas, Kassena, Nankani, Kusasis, Tallensis, Nabda...
- Correspondence with Gambia government re. courts.
- Report of visit to Sierra Leone and Gambia.
- Manuscript notes on Yoruba marriage.
- Volume: The use of indigenous authorities in tribal administration: studies of the Meru in Kenya col...
- Report of working party in the administration of native lands, Kenya.
- Memorandum regarding native marriage and kindred problems.
- Conference of Missionary Societies in GB and Ireland: laws governing the marriage and divorce of Nat...
- Pamphlets on land question in Kenya.
- Swazi customary law: law of marriage and dissolution of marriage, Neville Rubin.
- File: papers on tribes in Kenya and customary law: Elgon, Nyanza District, Nandi District, Kericho D...
- File: South Nyanga District, Kisii, Kenya.
- File: Central Nyanga District, Kisumu, papers on Luo customs and law.
- File: Kenya, law panel minutes: Elgon and North Nyanga Districts.
- Notes on local courts in North Rhodesia.
- Papers on customary law.
- Customs of the Western Abaluyia people of the Nyanza Province Kenya, together with the Abaluyia prov...
- Loose typescript notes on North Rhodesia native laws and customs, including Bemba marriage.
- Suicide in Northern Rhodesia, J H Chaplin, African Studies, 20 (3).
- Native tribes of North East Rhodesia: their laws and customs, ed JCC Coxhead, London, photocopy.
- File: materials on law in Northern Rhodesia.
- Typescript of 'Indigenous customs observed amongst the Babenba neighbouring tribes', Rev. Father L E...