The Douala landlords were subjected to a patent in order to exercise as customary judges, and gained some income from it.

In parallel, a council of notables collaborated with the German governor on the questions of social organization.

During the Franco-British condominium (1916-1919), and until the granting of the Mandate by the Company of the Nations (1922), the French administration works within the legal framework left by the Germans and preserves the same indigenous jurisdictions.

This reorganization removes the consequent material advantages that the Douala landlords’ possessed.

They made their dissatisfaction heard, maintaining clandestine courts, and even restore the pre-colonial traditional authorities.