Meanings of customary law in English

He has done all, or more than all, that customary law demands.

When national legislation recognizes customary law it also becomes part of statutory law.

Here the freemen interpreted the customary law of the locality.

The case is one which has been provided for by customary law in every detail.

Chechen customary law provides for revenge and collective punishment.

The poet knows intimately, and, like his audience, is keenly interested in the details of the customary law.

They judged on the basis of " customary law".

He said its mission was for due process, the rule of law, including customary law, to be complied with.

The royal prerogative in legislation is limited by a popular prejudice, which regards the customary law as sacred and immutable.

As concerns the apology and the gifts of atonement, the poet has feudal customary law and usage clearly before his eyes.

The extreme cautiousness and suspiciousness that is such a dominant feature of Manóbo character tends also to maintain the customary law.

All of them were also living under the same customary law of which we have given specimens on the preceding pages.

The UN states that Zambia has two different marriage systems, one based on customary law and the other on modern statute law.

The bill, which amended existing marriage legislation, was passed late on Thursday to formalise customary law about marrying more than one person.

Tribal law is therefore court-made law, and such customary law grows out of the exigencies which daily life presents to the people.

About 90 percent of rural land in Africa is undocumented, according to the World Bank, with most of it held under customary law.