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Customary law in South Africa

Title
Customary law in South Africa / T.W. Bennett.
Author
Bennett, T. W.
Publication
  • Claremont, South Africa : Juta, 2004.
  • 2015

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Description
lv, 462 pages; 25 cm
Summary
The position of customary law in the South African legal system has been much improved since the enactment of the new Constitution. As a constitutionally protected cultural heritage, customary law now enjoys a status equal to that of Roman-Dutch law. By drawing on a range of materials, both legal and and anthropological, from South Africa and elsewhere in Africa, this book provides a comprehensive account of the major branches of customary law: marriage, divorce, succession, children, courts and procedures, tradtional leadership, land tenure and the conflict of laws. Constant reference is made to the tensions generated by conflict between the Bill of Rights and the African legal tradition. The book also explores the complex nature of customary law, which exists in oral traditions, in codes, precedents and academic texts and, above all, in the system of living norms that regulate the everyday lives of the great majority of South Africans.
Subject
  • Customary law > South Africa
  • South Africa
  • legal sources
  • customary law
  • 86.06 ethnological jurisprudence
  • Customary law
  • Gewohnheitsrecht
  • Customary law
  • Jurisprudence
  • South Africa
  • Südafrika
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. xvii-xxxii) and index.
Contents
1. Concept and Theory -- 2. Recognition, Ascertainment and Application -- 3. The Right to Culture and the Constitution -- 4. Traditional Leaders -- 5. Courts -- 6. Procedure -- 7. The Family -- 8. Marriage -- 9. Consequences of Marriage -- 10. Dissolution of Marriage -- 11. Children -- 12. Succession -- 13. Land Tenure.
ISBN
  • 0702163619
  • 9780702163616
LCCN
  • 2004418592
  • 9780702163616
OCLC
  • ocm56614302
  • 56614302
  • SCSB-8934026
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library