of "what has always been done and accepted by law". Customary law (also, consuetudinary or unofficial law) exists where: a certain legal practice is observed...

Customary international law consists of international obligations arising from established or usual international practices, which are less formal customary...

Africa is recognized for customary marriages. The Supreme Court also ruled that Muslim marriages performed under Sharia law are valid. Sudan Togo Tanzania...

of law which is a process by a legal rule comes into existence: it is law creating. Some treaties are the result of codifying existing customary law, such...

African customary law refers to a usually uncodified legal system developed and practised by the indigenous communities of South Africa. Customary law has...

act in conformity with the existing law. Customary law, dealt with what in the West is termed private law or civil law. In particular, it comprises rules...

Indigenous Australian customary law or Indigenous Australian customary lore refers to the legal systems and practices uniquely belonging to Indigenous...

and acquired following statutory or customary laws. Eighty percent of land in Ghana is owned through customary law and the remaining twenty percent is...

occupied or used under customary law, but does not include any public land". In most countries of the Pacific islands, customary land remains the dominant...

supreme law of the country. There are four distinct legal systems in Nigeria, which include English law, Common law, Customary law, and Sharia Law. English...

autonomous customary laws to the various local communities for their self-administration. In this context, during different periods, Albanian customary laws were...

to create customary law can be shown by states including the principle in multiple bilateral and multilateral treaties, so that treaty law is necessary...

a high humanitarian standard, in rules of neutrality, of treaty law, of customary law embodied in religious charters, in exchange of embassies of a temporary...

history and structure, and their laws are variously defined by customary law, religious law, common law, Western civil law, other legal traditions, and combinations...

customary law during colonisation. Australia is a common-law jurisdiction, its court system having originated in the common law system of English law...

Sharia, or fiqh as traditionally known, has always been used alongside customary law from the very beginning in Islamic history; has been elaborated and...

or law of the land, that may consist of a variety of imperative and consensual rules. These may include customary law, conventions, statutory law, judge-made...

used. He said that, for example, "early customary law" and "municipal law" were contexts where the word "law" had two different and irreconcilable meanings...

over' ... by a brother ... of her deceased husband." "According to customary law, it is tantamount to adultery for a widow to be sexually involved with...

Mountains (Kanuni i Maleve) is one of the variants of the Albanian customary law transmitted orally. Believed to be much older, it was initially codified...

their background law is a mix of civil law and Scandinavian customary law and they have been partially codified. Likewise, the laws of the Channel Islands...

Customary international humanitarian law is a body of unwritten rules of public international law, which govern conduct during armed conflict. Customary...

the then-existing customary law. Although the provisions pertain to all areas of law, the largest part is dedicated to private law and civil procedure...

decided by courts, regulations issued by government agencies, and oral or customary law.[better source needed] Statutes may originate with the legislative body...

of the land, whereby the customary law firmly protected the forest with a 350 m radius of the temple; but if the government law was to be applied, many...

to the continuing importance of customary law as articulated by the Martens Clause. Such customary international law is established by the general practice...

(Catholic canon law), an unwritten law established by repeated practice Customary international law, an aspect of international law involving the principle...

Customary laws, in line with official state laws, are based on age-old community customs and norms in Ethiopia. They are noticeable in regional states...

union was previously concluded in terms of customary law, but is now governed under the Recognition of Customary Marriages, 1998 (Act 120 of 1998) (RCMA)...

Aboriginal title is a common law doctrine that the land rights of indigenous peoples to customary tenure persist after the assumption of sovereignty to...