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Title:The source and authority of African customary law
Author:Ogwurike, C.
Year:1966
Periodical:University of Ghana Law Journal
Volume:3
Issue:1
Pages:11-20
Language:English
Geographic term:Africa
Subject:customary law
Abstract:By reference to its source of derivation the corpus juris of Anglophonic Africa is divisible into three parts: enacted law, case-law which has its source in judicial precedent, and customary law. The article exposes the scope and the position of custumary law, with the judicial attitude, the shifting trends in the application of customary law rulers, the inclusion of Islamic law under it. Today traditional customary rules are no more regarded as legal except when they have been received into legal sources.
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