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The Yoruba court hierarchy from the compound to the palace, how evidence and oaths worked, why the aim was restoration rather than blame, and what the colonial and Nigerian legal systems did to all of it.
What aya and ọkọ actually encode, why a married woman never stops belonging to her father's lineage, the politics of co-wives, widowhood and inheritance under Yoruba customary law, and the grounds on which a woman could leave.
Guide to the five files on Yorùbá jurisprudence, covering customary legal principles, courts and dispute resolution, evidentiary oaths and ordeals, communal land tenure, and restorative criminal justice.
A comprehensive analysis of the sources, evidentiary mechanisms, proverbial jurisprudence, statutory tests, and succession doctrines governing Yorùbá customary law.
An analysis of Yoruba customary land tenure, the creation and governance of family land, rules of intestate distribution, and the structural transformations introduced by colonial legislation and the Land Use Act of 1978.