“Ibi tí a ti ńpìtàn ká tó jogún, ká mọ̀ pé ogún ibẹ̀ ò kanni.”
English
Where one must recite genealogies in order to establish one's claim to inheritance, one should know that one really has no claim to patrimony there.
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