AJ 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Ossification, Ngwenyama, List Of Order Structures In Mathematics

• School: Irvine Valley College
• Department: Administration of Justice
• Course: AJ 2
• Professor: Jones

Document Summary

To answer this, one must distinguish between official and living customary law. Living customary law actual practices or customs of the indigenous community: flexible and dynamic: evolves to meet the changing needs of the community, this is seen as one of the defining characteristics of customary law. A host of constitutional court cases affirms this: doesn"t necessarily mean that it is going to evolve in accordance with the. Constitution and lcl must still be checked against the constitution. Change may be rapid, as in the shilubana case: community said that females should be allowed to become. In reality change is often more gradual and slow. So, it"s not that a chief, which is a landmark change. the law is changing so quickly that it is uncertain and we do not know it. This is an example of customary law principle: Facts: headman solicits gifts in relation to land allocation.