Sentence examples for indigenous laws from inspiring English sources

Foreign laws have also frequently been "grafted" upon indigenous laws, as is seen in both Anglo-Muslim and Hindu law.

There are local courts that take account of indigenous laws and customs, magistrates' courts that administer English-based code, a High Court of Justice, and a Court of Appeal.

In contrast to property rights which are "newly crafted", native title was a kind of translation of ancient Indigenous laws and customs and only "a slice of the broader social justice and land justice issues" – not some kind of universal panacea.

The settlers made two sets of laws: a civil law for the civilized, an indigenous law for everyone else.

Reservation is made in favour of indigenous law and custom, so far as these are recognized; moreover, the general law of these countries has in many respects departed from its original type.

This holds firm in indigenous law but they are here now, saying that a change to the Ecuadorian constitution has rendered the document we wrote as worthless – so now we are fair game.

Among his findings, Mansfield said the loss to the Ngaliwurru and Nungali peoples was "evident" but it was clear they had not wholly lost their connection to country, and that some developments in Timber Creek had been acceptable under Indigenous law.

In its latest ruling the court said that the nomadic Tsilhqot'in could claim areas where they routinely hunted and trapped in addition to sites where they lived".It's a step rather than a leap," says Bob Rae, a lawyer and former MP who now specialises in indigenous law.

However, the brief's greater significance remains in the design of a right burdened by a moral economy and the forging of new space for the reproduction of the conditions of possibility for Indigenous law.

Although these communities applied for recognition of their traditional water rights under the 1993 Indigenous law, the situation proved intractable.

Speaking on behalf of the alliance, Chief Martin Louie of Nadleh Whut'en First Nation was confident that this indigenous law is enforceable, particularly because most people in BC are also opposed to Enbridge's project.