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The Need for Study of Native Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Extract

One occasionally meets people, even among those who have lived or served in Africa,2 who speak light-heartedly about the study of native law and native courts and seem to imply that it is an esoteric exercise of little more practical importance than, say, archaeology; but it is safe to say that these people cannot have had occasion to give much serious thought to the matter.

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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1957

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2 This article relates only to African territories which are the concern of the Colonial Office. Further, it is not meant to refer, and is largely inapplicable, to Muslim law, which is, of course, a recognised subject of study.

page 83 note 1 See “The Judicial Ascertainment of Customary Law in British Africa” by Dr.Allott, A. N., Modern Law Review, May, 1957.Google Scholar

page 83 note2 Record of Judicial Advisers Conference, 1953, Chapter I, para. 3; supplement to the Journal of African Administration, October, 1953.

page 84 note 1 Judicial Advisers Conference Record, 1956, Part II, Chapter II, para. 8; supplement to the Journal of African Administration, April, 1957.

page 84 note 2 See Record of Judicial Advisers Conference, 1953, Chapter V, and commentary thereon in Record of 1956 Conference (vide supra).

page 85 note1 Cmd. 9475, Chapter 6, para. 19.