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Law without precedent : legal ideas in action in the courts of colonial Busoga / [by] Lloyd A. Fallers.
- Title
- Law without precedent : legal ideas in action in the courts of colonial Busoga / [by] Lloyd A. Fallers.
- Author
- Fallers, Lloyd A.
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1969.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | EA 905.03U FAL | Off-site |
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- Description
- xi, 365 p. illus., maps.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Justice, Administration of > Busoga
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [354]-359.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- An African legal system in comparative perspective. -- The setting: the Basoga and their courts. -- Judges and dockets. -- The courts at work: husbands and lovers. -- In-laws at odds: harboring, eating two hens, divorce, bridewealth debt. -- Land in litigation: law in a changing institutional setting. -- Hadman and peasant: the growth of a law of tenancy. -- Soga law considered.
- ISBN
- 0226236811
- LCCN
- ^^^77086135^
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library