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Notes On Native Law and Custom in Kenya

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ID16767293
AuthorsJo Rowlands (corresponding author), J S S Rowlands
Year1962
Volume6
Issue3
Pages192-209
Publication date1962-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of African Law (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0221-8553 • E-ISSN: 1464-3731
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/s0021855300000905
OpenAlexW2170813522
LanguageEN
Citations received3

It is natural that customary law, as compared to written laws, varies like language from tribe to tribe and that in larger or scattered tribes there are different practices within a tribe itself. Customary legal systems have not been recorded in full. For example, the Turkana who are purely pastoral have no formal land law because grazing and rights to water are common to all members of the tribe. The Ndorobo had transitional rights of hunting and honey-gathering in certain ridges, but have refused to extend such exclusive rights to the cattle of the right-holders, while the Bantu generally have highly developed systems of land tenure in their agricultural areas

Agriculture · Archaeology · Bantu languages · Ethnology · Geography · Land law · Land rights · Land tenure · Linguistics · Political science · Sociology · Tribe · African history and culture analysis · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Law · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology

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Citations per year0.08
Citation span1989 - 2018 (30)
Highly citedNo

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