Law Without Precedent: Legal Ideas in Action Colonial Courts of Busoga

Publication date: 1969

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Law in Action: Order Without Written Precedent Fallers, Lloyd A. Law Without Precedent: Legal Ideas in Action in the Courts of Colonial Busoga. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [1969]. xi, 365 pp. Illustrations. Publisher's cloth fine, in lightly worn dust jacket with price label to front cover of dust jacket. Internally clean. A very good copy. $20. * The book is an ethnological study that analyzes how legal ideas were put into action in the courts of colonial Busoga, where formal precedent was absent. According to a review in the University of Chicago Law Review, Fallers suggests that without the categorizing tendency of the precedent reporting system in Anglo-American law, "it would be impossible to maintain order within a rapidly changing legal system". Reviewers note the book highlights the "litigious" nature of the Soga people and compares their legal processes to those of the Barotse, Tiv, and Arusha, as studied by other prominent anthropologists. The work demonstrates the applicability and inapplicability of analyses from Western legal systems, which heavily rely on precedent.…

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Law Without Precedent: Legal Ideas in Action Colonial Courts of Busoga
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Fallers, Lloyd A.
Publication year
1969
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The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. specializes in all aspects of law and legal history. Our publication program offers reprints of over 800 landmark works as well as original books. We invite offers of antiquarian, scholarly and current practice materials. Founded in 1983, we currently serve thousands of individuals and institutions worldwide. Law books - Out of print, Scholarly, Rare, and Reprints of Legal Classics. We also handle secondhand primary and secondary source material for practicing lawyers. Generally someone is available Monday-Friday 9:00 - 6:00PM(Eastern Time). Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers.…

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