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• Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Study of Customary Law
• Chapter 2: Conceptualizing Customary Law
• Chapter 3: NAS Law and Property Transaction Costs
• Chapter 4: NAS Law and Women's Rights Attainment
• Chapter 5: Implications and Conclusions.
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Africa is the emerging continent of the twenty-first century and will continue to play a major role in the world politics and trade. At the center of the African experience is customary law, which remains one of the most important and quintessential forms of legal, political, and social organization and regulation in the sub-Saharan landscape. Using qualitative and quantitative data, Casper Njuguna, sets a framework for understanding the hybrid nature of this law and creates an appropriate new moniker for it-Neo-Autogenous Sub-Saharan Law (NAS law). This systematic and empirical analysis addresses philosophical issues like human rights, property rights, women's rights, individual rights and freedoms, family relations, social structures, and political loyalties, which span beyond Africa and African scholars.
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• Introduction
• Thinking about African African legal ethics
• The African in African legal ethics
• African African jurisprudence in African African legal ethics
• African African legal ethics as an expression of African African culture
• African African legal ethics : a crisis of orientation
• Conclusion

This book is a philosophical inquiry into indigenous African legal ethics, asking what is African about African legal ethics? Taking us beyond a geographical understanding of Africa, the author argues for an African legal ethics that is distinct from non-African African legal ethics which are rooted in Euro-Western constructions. De-silencing African voices on African legal ethics this book decolonizes the prevailing wisdom on legal ethics and broadens our understanding of how law in Africa bears on ethics in Africa or, conversely, on how ethics bears on law in Africa. This book will be of interest to scholars of African philosophy, philosophy of law, and legal ethics.
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• Introducing the Bisha'h Ceremony-- The Mubasha's Family, Khams & Family Traditions-- A Review of Trials by Ordeal Throughout History-- Introduction to the Case Histories-- Theft, Drugs & Property Damage Cases-- Murder & Manslaughter Cases-- Illicit Sexual Relations & Rape Cases-- Marbut
• Inability of the Groom to Perform on His Wedding Night-- Charms, Witchcraft & Healing Ceremonies-- Concluding Remarks-- Index.
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Trials by ordeal, a judicial practice in which the guilt or innocence of the accused is determined by subjecting them to a painful task, have taken place from ancient Mesopotamia until the present day. This volume focuses on a special type of ordeal by fire called the bisha'h ceremony, which originated in Bedouin societies and continues to be practiced in Egypt today. In Bedouin and Arab rural societies, when somebody suspects another person of theft, property damage, murder, manslaughter, illicit sexual relations, rape, or witchcraft, and there are no witness to the crime, this individual can request the suspect or suspects to accompany him to the mubasha', a Bedouin notable who conducts the ordeal by fire. The bisha'h ceremony was previously performed in Jordan and in Saudi Arabia as well as in Egypt. In Jordan, the late King Hussein banned the ordeal by fire in 1976. In Saudi Arabia, the mubasha' died in the late 1980s, without leaving a successor.Today, in Egypt, near Ismaliyya, a mubasha' continues to practice the ceremonial ordeal in which the suspect licks a ladle that is heated to between 600-900 degrees Celsius. If the suspect's tongue blisters, they are deemed guilty. If the tongue is clear, they are declared innocent. The author observed 169 of such ordeals, many of which are documented and illustrated in this volume. People who take part in the bisha'h ceremony not only come from various regions in Egypt, but also from other North African countries, and from several Middle Eastern countries, including the Gulf States. Most of the cases involve rural peasants rather than Bedouin, but there are also instances where city dwellers take part in the ordeal.
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• 1. Du serment des chasseurs à l'abolition de l'esclavage (1212-1222)

First published in 1945, this study covers a wide range of topics including marriage, divorce, bride-price, inheritance, property, personal status and contracts as well as some notes on the customary courts and the way they functioned during the period of British administration.
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