Custom as a source of law
A central puzzle in jurisprudence has been the role of custom in law. Custom is simply the practices and usages of distinctive communities. But are such customs legally binding? Can custom be law, even before it is recognized by authoritative legislation or precedent? And, assuming that custom is a...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
2010
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Anthropology : custom in preliterate societies
- Culture : the western legal tradition of positivism
- History : the common law and custom
- Economics, sociobiology, and psychology : the human impulse of custom
- Family law
- Property
- Contracts
- Torts
- Constitutional law
- Private international law : international commercial usage
- Public international law : custom among nations
- Conclusion : how and why custom endures.
