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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.

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.