Validity and Enforceability of Customary Law in Nigeria: Towards a Correct Delimitation of the Province of the Courts

Autor:	Bright Bazuaye, Amos O. Enabulele
Rok vydání:	2019
Předmět:	050502 law 021110 strategic defence & security studies 05 social sciences Organic Chemistry 0211 other engineering and technologies 02 engineering and technology Test validity Biochemistry Term (time) Statute Power (social and political) Political science Law Relation (history of concept) Judicial notice 0505 law
Zdroj:	Journal of African Law. 63:79-104
ISSN:	1464-3731 0021-8553
DOI:	10.1017/s002185531800030x
Popis:	With a view to showing that courts do not have the power to validate native law and custom, this article highlights the different roles assigned to the assent of the people governed by native law and custom, and to the court called upon to determine its judicial enforceability. It argues that customary law is validated by the assent of the people and not by courts, and that the tests contained in different statutes by which courts are permitted to intervene in the regime of customary law are tests of enforceability and not tests of validity. As a result, it argues that the term “validity test” is misleading when used in relation to the power of courts to determine the enforceability of native law and custom, and should therefore be discarded.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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