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Contract in Tswana Case Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

I. Schapera
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Journal of African Law , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1965 , pp. 142 - 153
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1965

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1 Bechuanaland Protectorate Native Tribunals Proclamation, No. 75 of 1934 (promulgated 4th January, 1935), s. 16.

2 There is a preliminary analysis of this material (excluding some subsequently gathered among Khurutshe, Malete, Seleka-Rolong, and Tlokwa) in my paper, “The work of tribal courts in the Bechuanaland Protectorate” (1943) African Studies 27–40. This also describes briefly the records themselves.

3 “Contract in Tswana law” (paper prepared for the International African Institute seminar on customary law, to be held at Addis Ababa, January 1966). For an earlier account, based chiefly on Kgatla and Ngwato sources, cf. my Handbook of Tswana Law and Custom (1938, new edn. 1955), Chap. XIV.

page 143 note 1 I.e., Case No. 74 of 1913. Unless otherwise specified, all the cases cited were tried in the chief's court (“senior tribunal”) of the tribe named.