customary law
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcustomaryandlaw
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customary
adjective
uk/ˈkʌs.tə.mər.i/us/ˈkʌs.tə.mer.i/
usual:
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law
noun
uk/lɔː/us/lɑː/
a rule, usually made by a government, that is used to order the way in which a ...
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(Definition ofcustomaryandlawfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This structure tended to erase differences in localcustomarylaw.
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Andcustomarylawprovided the prescriptive rules binding such units.
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Customarylaw(orf or adet) was, in personal and civil matters, always subordinate to it.
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In actual practice, the identification and use ofcustomarylawremained fluid.
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The man's rights have an absolute character, as prescribed in all accounts ofcustomarylaw.
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In the same way, a marriage undercustomarylawis not a wedding.
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This is, perhaps, most often reflected in women being disadvantaged incustomarylaw.
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Nor iscustomarylawinherently more ' just ' that a codified legal system.
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Customarylawand conflict-resolution mechanisms were modified and granted official recognition.
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The 1985 constitution removed the provision that had allowed for the legal, if somewhat subterranean, functioning ofcustomarylaw.
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It is incustomarylawthat women are regarded as jural minors with no rights to own property.
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In such instances, the issues were clear : should a man live with another man's wife, he had contravenedcustomarylaw.
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For one, the idea of tribe underpins the approaches to tradition, chieftaincy andcustomarylawdiscussed above.
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In actual fact, the management of community natural resources was mainly governed by rules based oncustomarylaw.
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In such a situation it would certainly have been dangerous to admit just how fluidcustomarylawcould be.
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The legal system, in fact, by and large gave recognition to local custom as a form of 'customarylaw'.
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Yet this problem really lies with the broadercustomarylawof which land tenure is only a small part.
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The state did not create and crystallizecustomarylaw, but allowed it to remain fluid and situational.
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An excellent illustration of the differences between law panel and appliedcustomarylawarose in a 1959 adultery dispute.
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Elders hoped to renew civic order by disciplining women and young men usingcustomarylawand church bureaucracy.
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Over time the ' customary ' aspect ofcustomarylawbecomes ' fuzzy ' reflecting the hybrid nature of all colonial/colonised regimes.
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Whatever the ultimate destiny ofcustomarylaw, he wrote in 1929, we cannot do without it at present.
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