ATTRAMS AND OTHERS vs. AFRIYIE II AND 5 OTHERS

JUDGMENT OF DJABANOR J. [His lordship reviewed the evidence in detail and found in favour of the plaintiffs on the issue of title. On the question of the application of Act 107 and the protection it afforded to the second—sixth defendants, his lordship continued:] I must now come to determine the effect of the Farm Lands (Protection) Act, 1962.1(1) The purpose of that Act is to protect farmers whose titles to land are found to be defective. Section 2 is the most relevant clause. Section 1 does not apply. Section 2 (1) is in the following terms: “Where a farmer has, in good faith, at any time after the thirty-first day of December, 1940, and before the commencement of this Act, acquired any land by customary law or otherwise in a prescribed area for purposes of farming and has begun farming on that land within eight years from the date of such acquisition, this section shall notwithstanding any defect in the title to the contrary, operate to confer valid title on such farmer: ...