Native Law And Custom Being A Compendium Of The Recognised Native Customs In Force In The Native Territories Of The Colony Of The Cape Of Good Hope

Author : Wilfred Massingham Seymour
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333465865
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (658 download)

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Download or read book Native Law and Custom written by Wilfred Massingham Seymour and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-04 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Native Law and Custom: Being a Compendium of the Recognised Native Customs in Force in the Native Territories of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, Together With Legislative Amendments The object of this work is to lay before those interested therein the recognised Native customs at present obtaining in the Native Territories of Cape Colony. Legislative enactments and Colonial law are referred to, but only in so far as they affect Native customs. There is an idea prevailing that the natives in these Terri; tories are not subject to Colonial law, and that cases between them are always decided by the Courts there according to Native customs; but this is not the case. Colonial law is applied to every case which can be met under it, and it is only in those cases where the obligations be tween the parties arise out of customs foreign to, and which cannot be dealt with under, Colonial law, that recourse is had to Native law. Practically the only actions between natives which are now tried under Native law are those arising out of marriage by Native forms, dowry contracts, adulteries, seductions, kraal head liability, inheritance and the like, the Native customs in re spect of which have always been adhered to. Customs have only to a certain extent been recognised by the Courts, as it has been found that some of them are tainted with slavery, or are adverse to the interests of morality, whilst others are in direct con ict with Proclamations. For instance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."