caa a22 4500 386371261 CHVBK 20180307111959.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0021855300008123 doi S0021855300008123 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0021855300008123 Dankwa E. V. O. The End of Pledges in Ghana? [Elektronische Daten] [E. V. O. Dankwa] A pledge is a customary law transaction where the pledgor (borrower) surrenders possession of his property to the pledgee (creditor) "to hold and use until the debt due is paid, an article borrowed is returned or replaced, or obligation is discharged”. Like other customary transactions, pledges have not remained static: social and economic changes in Ghana as well as statutory intervention (which in itself is generally the result of such changes) have contributed to their development. In some respects, pledges are similar to the common law transaction known as mortgages but there are essential differences between the two. However, now the same law would seem to govern both transactions because by virtue of the Mortgages (Amendment) Decree, 1979 (A.F.R.C.D. 37): Every customary loan transaction in respect of which any farm-land is given Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1989 Journal of African Law Cambridge University Press 33/2(1989), 185-191 0021-8553 33:2<185 1989 33 JAL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021855300008123 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021855300008123 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Dankwa E. V. O. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of African Law Cambridge University Press 33/2(1989), 185-191 0021-8553 33:2<185 1989 33 JAL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge