Customary law

URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85034953
- info:lc/authorities/sh85034953
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85034953#concept
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
Collection Membership(s)
Variants
- Customs (Law)
- Folk law
- Usage and custom (Law)
Broader Terms
- Social norms
Narrower Terms
- Law merchant
- Usages of trade
Related Terms
- Common law
- Time immemorial (Law)
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
- http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_10222
- http://stitch.cs.vu.nl/vocabularies/rameau/ark:/12148/cb119501423
Sources
- found: Indiana University website, Jan. 25, 2008 (Commission on Folk Law and Legal Pluralism: established in 1978 by the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES). A network of approximately 400 lawyers, anthropologists and other social scientists as well as NGO activists and policy makers representing all regions of the world and concerned with state law, folk law and international law in both theory and practice)
Change Notes
- 1986-02-11: new
- 2008-02-29: revised

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