Title 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. / Edited by Max Gluckman, with an introduction by A. N. Allott, A. L. Epstein, and M. Gluckman

Published London : Published for the International African Institute by the Oxford U.P., 1969

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Description xiii, 361 pages ; 23 cm Contents The seminar -- Research problems and methods -- The time factor and the definitional problem : what is customary law? -- The problem of description -- Proceedings and evidence in African customary law -- The new personnel of local courts -- Codification and recording of customary law -- Reason and the occult in customary law -- The conception of legal personality -- Succession and inheritance -- Rights in land -- Marriage and affiliation -- Injuries : liability and responsibility -- Agreements and transactions : contracts? -- L'analyse des espèces juridiques et l'étude des droits coutumiers africains / J. Poirier -- The structure of African judicial authority and problems of evidence and proof in traditional courts / N.A. Ollennu -- Whither lay justice in Africa? / S.S. Richardson -- Procedural informality, reconciliation, and false comparisons / J. van Velsen -- Guilt and innocence : problem and method in the Gurage judicial system / William A. Shack -- La première codification africaine : Madagascar 1828-81 / H. Deschamps -- Legal personality in African law / A.N. Allott -- Sesotho marriage, guardianship, and the customary-law heir / A.M.R. Ramolefe -- Idda and secondary marriage among the northern Kadara / M.G. Smith -- Legitimation of children in customary law in Kinshasa / J.M. Pauwels -- Réflexions sur l'existence du concept de propriété immobilière individuelle dans les droits africains traditionnels / J. Vanderlinden -- Property rights and status in African traditional law / M. Gluckman -- The breakdown of traditional land tenure in northern Nigeria / C.M. McDowell -- Status, responsibility and liability : a comparative study of two types of society in Uganda / P.J. Nkambo Mugerwa -- Injury and liability in African customary law in Zambia / A.L. Epstein -- The customary law of wrongs and injuries in Malawi / J.O. Ibik -- Contract in Tswana law / I. Schapera -- Customary contracts and transactions in Kenya / Y.P. Ghai Notes English or French Bibliography Includes bibliographies Notes English or French Subject Customary law -- Africa. Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings. Author Gluckman, Max, 1911-1975, editor Haile Sellassie I University. International African Institute. LC no. 76385702 ISBN 0197241778

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