Ideas and Procedures in African Customary Law

Studies Presented and Discussed at the Eighth International African Seminar at the Haile Sellassie I University, Addis Ababa, January 1966
Herausgeber: Gluckman, Max

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Produktbeschreibung

The 18 papers in this volume, originally published in 1969 in English and French, with summaries in the other language, define and analyze in their wider social contexts the fundamental ideas and procedures to be found in African traditional systems of law. They assess the needs and problems of adaptation to changing conditions. The comprehensive introduction by Allott, Epsteina nd Gluckman provides a framework of analysis. It deals with the search for a common terminology in which to analyse and compare the different systems of customary law proceedings and evidence, codification and recording, reason and the occult, the conception of legal personality, succcession and inheritance, land rights, marriage and affiliation, injuries, liability and responsibility.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 378
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 573g
• ISBN-13: 9781138596573
• ISBN-10: 1138596574
• Artikelnr.: 69899802

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Part 1: Problems of Research Part 2: Procedures Part 3:
Conceptions in the Substantive Law Special Studies 1. L'Analyse des Espèces
juridiques et L'Étude des Droits coutumiers africains J. Poirier 2. The
Structure of African Judicial Authority and Problems of Evidence and Proof
in Tditional Courts N. A. Ollennu 3. Whiter Lay Justice in Africa? S. S.
Richardson 4. Procedural Informality, Reconciliation, and False Comparisons
J. van Velsen 5. Guilt and Innocence; Problem and Method in the Gurage
Judicial System William A. Shack 6. La première Codification africaine:
Madagascar 1828-81 H. Deschamps 7. Legal Personality in African Law A. N.
Allott 8. Sesotho Marriage, Guardianship, and the Customary-Law Heir A. M.
R. Ramolefe 9. Idda and Secondary Marriage among the Northern Kadara M. G.
Smith 10. Legitimation of Children in Customary Law in Kinshasa J. M.
Pauwels 11. Réflexions sur L'Existence du Concept de Propriété immobilère
individuelle dans les Droits africains traditionnels J. Vanderlinden 12.
Property Rights and Status in African Traditional Law M. Gluckman 13. The
Breakdown of Traditional Land Tenure in Northern Nigeria C. M. McDowell
14. Status, Responsibility and Liability: A Comparative Study of Two Types
of Society in Uganda P. J. Nkambo Mugerwa 15. Injury and Liability in
African Customary Law in Zambia A. L. Epstein 16. The Customary Law of
Wrongs and Injuries in Malawi J. O. Ibik 17. Contract in Tswana Law I.
Schapera 18. Customary Contracts and Transactions in Kenya Y. P. Ghai