Customary Courts

Some articles on customary, customary courts, courts, court:

Law Enforcement In Niger - Human Rights, Denial of Fair Public Trial - Customary Law
... chiefs act as mediators and counselors and have authority in customary law cases as well as status under national law, where they were designated as auxiliaries to local officials ... they had no police or judicial powers and may only mediate, not arbitrate, customary law disputes ... Customary courts, located only in large towns and cities, try cases involving divorce or inheritance ...
List Of Country Legal Systems - Civil Law
... century, the German legal theory became increasingly influential in Argentina Andorra Courts apply the customary laws of Andorra, supplemented with Roman law ... of 1804) Egypt Equatorial Guinea Ethiopia Gabon Guinea based on French civil law system, customary law, and decree Guinea-Bissau Based on Portuguese civil law ... which is a qualified series of identical resolutions in similar cases pronounced by higher courts (the Constitutional Court acting as a 'Tribunal de Amparo', and the ...
Judiciary Of Niger - Judicial Structure - Customary Courts
... chiefs can act as mediators and counselors and have authority in customary law cases as well as status under national law where they are designated as auxiliaries to local officials ... Under customary courts and traditional mediation, individuals do not have the same legal protections as those using the formal court systems ... They have authority to arbitrate in many customary law matters, including marriage, inheritance, land, and community disputes, but not in all civil issues ...

Famous quotes containing the words courts and/or customary:

    “Some marriages depend on domestic arguments the way the courts depend on litigation.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “We have to be despised by somebody whom we regard as above us, or we are not happy; we have to have somebody to worship and envy, or we cannot be content. In America we manifest this in all the ancient and customary ways. In public we scoff at titles and hereditary privilege, but privately we hanker after them, and when we get a chance we buy them for cash and a daughter.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)