Kaguru Justice and the Concept of Legal Fictions
- 1 January 1961
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of African Law
- Vol. 5 (1) , 5-20
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021855300002928
Abstract
This paper has two purposes: (1) to consider certain aspects of the concept of “legal fiction”; (2) to indicate some of the means by which a local African court avoids the potential conflict between African customary law and European law.Keywords
This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Hyena and Rabbit: A Kaguru Representation of Matrilineal RelationsAfrica, 1961
- The Law of Primitive ManPublished by Harvard University Press ,1954