of "what has always been done and accepted by law". Customary law (also, consuetudinary or unofficial law) exists where: a certain legal practice is observed...
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Customary international law are international obligations arising from established or usual international practices, which are less formal customary expectations...
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Legality of polygamy (redirect from Polygamous marriage under customary law)
Africa is recognized for customary marriages. The Supreme Court also ruled that Muslim marriages performed under Sharia law are valid. Sudan Togo Tanzania...
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African customary law refers to a usually uncodified legal system developed and practised by the indigenous communities of South Africa. Customary law has...
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looked exclusively at Aboriginal law and lore, with regard to personal and social customs. Aboriginal customary law developed over time from accepted...
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of law which is a process by a legal rule comes into existence: it is law creating. Some treaties are the result of codifying existing customary law, such...
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occupied or used under customary law, but does not include any public land". In most countries of the Pacific islands, customary land remains the dominant...
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and acquired following statutory or customary laws. Eighty percent of land in Ghana is owned through customary law and the remaining twenty percent is...
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act in conformity with the existing law. Customary law, dealt with what in the West is termed private law or civil law. In particular, it comprises rules...
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Levirate marriage (redirect from Levirite Law)
over' ... by a brother ... of her deceased husband." "According to customary law, it is tantamount to adultery for a widow to be sexually involved with...
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a high humanitarian standard, in rules of neutrality, of treaty law, of customary law embodied in religious charters, in exchange of embassies of a temporary...
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Customary international humanitarian law is a body of unwritten rules of public international law, which govern conduct during armed conflict. Customary...
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supreme law of the country. There are four distinct legal systems in Nigeria, which include English law, Common law, Customary law, and Sharia Law. English...
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Sharia (redirect from Islamic Law)
customary law from the beginning, and applied in courts by ruler-appointed judges, integrated with various economic, criminal and administrative laws...
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to create customary law can be shown by states including the principle in multiple bilateral and multilateral treaties, so that treaty law is necessary...
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Australian legal system (redirect from Australian Law)
customary law during colonisation. Australia is a common-law jurisdiction, its court system having originated in the common law system of English law...
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history and structure, and their laws are variously defined by customary law, religious law, common law, Western civil law, other legal traditions, and combinations...
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of the land, whereby the customary law firmly protected the forest with a 350 m radius of the temple; but if the government law was to be applied, many...
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Central University of Jharkhand (redirect from Centre for Tribal & Customary Law (Central University of Jharkhand))
The Central University of Jharkhand (CUJ) is a central intensive research university located in Ranchi, Jharkhand, India. It was established in 2009 as...
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Customary laws, in line with official state laws, are based on age-old community customs and norms in Ethiopia. They are noticeable in regional states...
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used. He said that, for example, "early customary law" and "municipal law" were contexts where the word "law" had two different and irreconcilable meanings...
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or law of the land, that may consist of a variety of imperative and consensual rules. These may include customary law, conventions, statutory law, judge-made...
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Statute (redirect from Statutory law)
decided by courts, regulations issued by government agencies, and oral or customary law.[better source needed] Statutes may originate with the legislative body...
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their background law is a mix of civil law and Scandinavian customary law and they have been partially codified. Likewise, the laws of the Channel Islands...
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Mountains (Kanuni i Maleve) is one of the variants of the Albanian customary law transmitted orally. Believed to be much older, it was initially codified...
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of Customary Marriages Act, 1998 (Act No. 120 of 1998) is a South African statute in terms of which marriages performed under African customary law, including...
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Until recently, the Act (and its common-law precursor) existed side by side with a statutorily-regulated customary-law regime of intestate succession, applied...
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The law of Andorra includes customary law and legislation. The Constitution of Andorra was the subject of a referendum on 14 March 1993. The legislature...
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to the continuing importance of customary law as articulated by the Martens Clause. Such customary international law is established by the general practice...
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Legal history (redirect from History of Law)
Roman law as the modern civil law in a large part of the world. There was, however, a great deal of resistance so that civil law rivaled customary law for...
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