Customary laws, administered by native, or customary, courts, are usually presided over by traditional rulers, who generally hear cases about family problems such as divorce.
Customary laws can also be discriminatory, although Judy Adoko and Simon Levine, from the Land and Equity Movement in Uganda, pointed out in an article published on the Katine website last year that sometimes customary laws do afford women many rights, but they are not applied correctly.
Customary laws and joint tribal courts between these different tribes have existed for more than 200 years to cater for cases pertaining to trespassing over farming lands, theft and abductions which take place from time to time.
Customary laws, such as the Law of Clan MacDuff, came under attack from the Stewart Dynasty, which consequently extended the reach of Scots common law.
Customary laws and practices remain discriminatory against women on issues of property inheritance particularly for land, and in decisions on the consequences of actions such as IPV [ 48].
English, Islamic, and customary laws have been absorbed into the legal system.
Third, to bring about greater unification between divergent customary laws and between them and English law.
Formal and customary laws govern women's inheritance rights, and the primary formal laws are heavily influenced by custom and religion.
The constitution could allow customary laws that contradict neither Islamic law nor the values of the constitution.
Soon after the acquisition the British guaranteed Kandyans their privileges and rights, as well as the preservation of customary laws, institutions, and religion.
Ideally, the polis was a corporation of citizens who all participated in its government, religious cults, defense, and economic welfare and who obeyed its sacred and customary laws.
