...civilization to conquer every niche on the whole earth" can well remember San Gorgonio. Owners I conceive that land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless members are still unborn. — A NIGERIAN CHIEF Rural Roadsides By HARLEAN JAMES. With whole families...

...ground was to spit upon one's self. A Nigerian chieftain from Africa sumed it up this way, "I conceive that land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are unborn." Thomas Jefferson held much the same view. He said, "While the farmer holds title to the land,...

...fortuitous co-occurrence of several low probability events in triggering changes in and ecosystems. "Land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are slill unborn". — CK Meek (1947) quoting an un-named American Indian. If we are to manage our rangelands...

...reply of a Nigerian chief to the question—who, here, owns land? " I conceive," he replied, " that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are yet unborn." But both Scots and English law adopted a different basic assumption, the assumption that...

...in Emmerton, Barbados 78 Box 4.12 Compensations Provisions in the Lesotho Highlands Water Project 82 "Land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn." I. INTRODUCTION Land Markets: What Are the Rules of the Game? 1.1 Like any other market, the...

...Ghoteyi, the Elesi of Odogbolu in the case of Amodu Tijani v. Secretary, Southern Nigeria241: "I conceive land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless members are still unborn." Onwuamaegbu248 restated the position as follows: "Theoretically, the ownership...

...years later, the West African Lands Committee endorsed this view. Quoting the words of a Yoruba chief "that land belongs to a vast family, of which many...are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are yet unborn," the committee concluded that, in Africa, land is "God-given" and "cannot be alienated"...

...African chiefs from Nigeria and Ghana described the situation graphically when they said that: "laud belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living and countless members are still unborn."7 Forest resources were in abundance and cases of a member encroaching on...

...concluded with a quotation from CM Meeks, of a Nigerian chief who said, "I conceive the land belongs in a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers still unborn." One little exchange during the debate is perhaps worth recording in the light of subsequent...

...by the living for the benefit of future generations. In the often-quoted words of a Nigerian leader: Land belongs to a vast family, of which many are dead, few are living, and countless members are still unborn. below Ole Mbatiany, a Maasai man in Narok District, surveys fencedoff wheat...