Land Law and Custom in the Colonies

Abstract

TWENTY Years ago discussions of Colonial land legislation and policy were focused on the question of the alienation of land to non-natives, particularly in Africa, and the adequacy of the provision made to safeguard the rights and interest of native peoples. The importance of securing to them areas of land sufficient for their existing and estimated future needs was considered so urgent that this was the subject of a special clause in the agreements placing African territories under mandate; and the question whether native populations had, in fact, been injured by the grant of land to settlers was a matter of bitter controversy in some British Dependencies. Land Law and Custom in the Colonies By Dr. C. K. Meek Pp. xxvi + 338. (London, New York and Toronto Oxford University Press, 1946.) 21s. net.