Customary Law

Customary Law

Recognition Applications, Estates, Dissolution of Customary Marriages, Determination of Hereditary Rights to Land, Structuring of Governance, Establishment of Customary Courts, Election of Traditional Councils.

 

Customary law is “law consisting of customs that are accepted as legal requirements or obligatory rules of conduct: practices and beliefs that are so vital and intrinsic a part of a social and economic system that they are treated as if they were laws”.