DARFOOR vs. GYANEWA [1968]DLHC9284

Date	1968-03-29
Suit No.	[1968] GLR 326
Citation No.	[1968]DLHC9284

CHARLES CRABBE J.

DUA SAKYI FOR THE APPELLANT

HAROLD DARKO FOR THE RESPONDENT.

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mso-pagination:widow-orphan;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric ideograph-other"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;color:#00B0F0">DARFOOR</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
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115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
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line-height:115%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric ideograph-other"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;color:#00B0F0">GYANEWA</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
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&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi">[HIGH COURT,<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>ACCRA]<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi">[1968] GLR 326&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;
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29<sup>TH </sup>MARCH, 1968<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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text-autospace:ideograph-numeric ideograph-other"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
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&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi">COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif">DUA
SAKYI FOR THE APPELLANT. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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DARKO FOR THE RESPONDENT.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif">CHARLES
CRABBE</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
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&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi">J.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>

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</div><h2 style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif">JUDGMENT OF CHARLES CRABBE J.<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:6.5pt;margin-right:5.8pt;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif">This
is an appeal from the judgment dated 22 June 1964 of the learned local court
magistrate in which he had come to a conclusion that a gift of the nature as
the one before him was not irrevocable for good reasons.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:4.0pt;margin-right:5.8pt;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif">The
facts of this case are very simple. The plaintiff-respondent (hereinafter
called the respondent) was the husband of the defendant-appellant (hereinafter
called the appellant). He claims that because of his sickness—he was getting
blind—and the fact that he valued the care of the appellant then his wife, he
decided to make a gift of a portion of his farm to the appellant. This gift was
acknowledged in customary form by the acceptance of sheep and drink which the
appellant sent to the respondent to express her thanks for the gift of the farm
to<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>her.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:6.25pt;margin-right:5.85pt;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif">But
within about eight months after the respondent had given the portion of his
farm as a gift to the appellant, the appellant sought dissolution of the
marriage. She was not successful but owing to the persistence of the appellant
the respondent was forced to seek a dissolution of the marriage. In his own
words:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:2.3pt;margin-right:5.75pt;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:33.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
115%"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif">“During the dissolution of
the marriage I warned the defendant in the presence of the meeting that since
she has divorced me during my sickness I have revoked the gift I made to her
and that she is forbidden from entering upon that property as from that date.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:8.1pt;margin-right:5.85pt;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif">The
issue for determination in this case is whether the gift made to the appellant
by the respondent was a conditional gift which was revocable or an outright
gift which is not revocable. Throughout the evidence of the respondent before
the court below he referred to the transaction of a gift from him to the wife
and it would appear that it was so understood. Indeed under customary law the
gift had been accepted as an outright gift by both parties by the offering and
the acceptance of sheep and drink to acknowledge the gift. Again in the words
of the respondent, “It was during the same month that the defendant brought
drinks and sheep to acknowledge the gift of the farm I had made to her.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:6.2pt;margin-right:5.85pt;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif">I
am satisfied on the evidence before me that at the time that the respondent
sent his junior uncle to the farm and allocated a portion of the farm to the
appellant as a gift the respondent had it in mind to give that portion of the
farm as an outright gift to the appellant. The question of revocation arose
because the action of the appellant in seeking a dissolution of the marriage
after the gift of the farm had outraged the conscience of the respondent and
that caused him to doubt the sincerity all along of the wife. In my view this
is a moral issue. The point before this court is whether the gift as a gift
inter vivos under customary law is revocable.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:6.3pt;margin-right:5.95pt;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-l</main>