P. C. Bongay v Macauley (3 of 1931) [1931] SLSC 3 (5 March 1931)


Constitutional Law - chiefs - paramount chief - rights and dutiesright
of entry to communal land to work on it for good of community
- interference and denial of right amounts to flouting chief's authority:
Under the customary law prevailing in the Big Bo Chiefdom, the
Paramount Chief has the right to enter communal land, whether
occupied by a settler or a native of the community, to do whatever he
thinks necessary for the good of the community; and a settler's interference
with this right, by physical obstruction and claims to absolute
ownership of the land, amounts to the flouting of the chief's authority.

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