Some General Principles of Acquisition of Ownership of and Rights Over Land by Customary Prescription in the Sudan

1976 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saeed Mohd Ahmed El Mahd
Keyword(s):  
Customary Law ◽  
Civil Justice ◽  
Civil Court ◽  
Good Conscience ◽  
The Law ◽  
Civil Courts

Custom is known as urf in Arabic. In Islam the sources of law are the Holy Koran, the Sunna, the ijma’a, the qiyas and possibly urf Customary law existed before the advent of the Condominium Rule in the Sudan. But the origins of the customs and their nature have not yet been studied seriously. According to section 9 of the Civil Justice Ordinance, 1929, the civil courts of the Sudan may have resort to customary law to reach a decision if there is no express enactment covering a certain situation by applying the formula of equity, justice and good conscience of section 9. Moreover, the law to be administered in personal matters in any suit or other proceeding in a civil court shall be any custom applicable to the parties concerned which is not contrary to justice, equity and good conscience, and has not been altered or abolished and has not been declared void by the decision of a competent court.

The Relationship between Islamic and Customary Law in the Sudan

1960 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sayyid Muhammad Abu Rannat
Keyword(s):  
Integrated System ◽  
Customary Law ◽  
Civil Justice ◽  
Form Part ◽  
Local Courts ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Civil Courts ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Judicial Hierarchy

I do not wish to trouble you with the details of the system of courts in the Sudan, which is extremely complicated, but it is necessary to sketch the bare outlines. For some time it has been true to say that the Sudan has an “integrated” system in that the Local Courts form part of the judicial hierarchy and come under the supervision of the judiciary rather than the executive. But it would be misleading to call the system “unified”, as the judiciary is split into two quite separate hierarchies: the Sharia Division of which the Grand Kadi is the head, and the Civil Division over which I have the honour to preside. Within the Civil Division there are three main types of courts: “Civil Courts” as established under the Civil Justice Ordinance, Native Courts set up under the Native Courts Ordinance in the six Northern Provinces, and Chiefs Courts set up by the Chiefs’ Courts Ordinance in the three Southern Provinces.

CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS AND THE CIVIL COURTS

2015 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-108
Author(s):  
Matthew Dyson ◽  
John Randall
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Criminal Convictions ◽  
Civil Court ◽  
Civil Suit ◽  
The Law ◽  
High Level ◽  
Summary Judgment ◽  
Civil Courts ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Prospect Of Success

AbstractHow should a civil court use a relevant conviction? Some have argued that a civil claim contesting the factual basis of a conviction should be struck out as an abuse of process unless new evidence is presented which “entirely changes the aspect of the case”. Such a high evidential requirement is wrong in principle, inconsistent with section 11 of the Civil Evidence Act 1968, and unjust in practice. The law should recognise that there are two distinct types of cases. The first is concerned with truly abusive claims, where the later civil suit is brought for an improper purpose or otherwise similarly abusive; there a high level of new evidence should be required. The second deals with challenges to convictions which are in principle permissible; there, if on the facts they have no real prospect of success, an application for summary judgment by the other party is the solution.

scholarly journals SPIRITUAL VALUES OF CUSTOMARY LAW

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-27
Author(s):  
Kuswardani Kuswardani ◽  
Marisa Kurnianingsih ◽  
Andria Luhur Prakoso
Keyword(s):  
Customary Law ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Spiritual Values ◽  
The Law ◽  
Article 5 ◽  
Civil Courts

Recognition of living law in society or customary law / unwriten law, marking a pluralistic spiritual life that have law. Lawmakers (legislative or judge) must accommodate those values in their legal products. Moreover, judges as formers of practical law are obliged to explore and understand the values that live in society, which is the soul of the nation's personality (volkgeist), which is reflected through its Verdicts, so that the verdict can have transcendental values / spiritual values. The enactment of customary law as the basis of the Verdict of the judge or in other words the formation of the law by the judge through the Verdicts based on customary law, has existed before the Indonesian constitution is amended, namely in Article 5 paragraph (3) sub b Act No. 1/1951 About Measures - Temporary Measures for Conducting the Union of Suspended Power and Events of the Civil Courts.

Slavery and Ransom

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Will Smiley
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
The State ◽  
Customary Law ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
The Law

This chapter explores captives’ fates after their capture, all along the Ottoman land and maritime frontiers, arguing that this was largely determined by individuals’ value for ransom or sale. First this was a matter of localized customary law; then it became a matter of inter-imperial rules, the “Law of Ransom.” The chapter discusses the nature of slavery in the Ottoman Empire, emphasizing the role of elite households, and the varying prices for captives based on their individual characteristics. It shows that the Ottoman state participated in ransoming, buying, exploiting, and sometimes selling both female and male captives. The state particularly needed young men to row on its galleys, but this changed in the late eighteenth century as the fleet moved from oars to sails. The chapter then turns to ransom, showing that a captive’s ability to be ransomed, and value, depended on a variety of individualized factors.

Indonesian Law

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Lindsey ◽  
Simon Butt
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Law ◽  
Customary Law ◽  
State Agencies ◽  
Court Decisions ◽  
Banking Competition ◽  
Inheritance System ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Forest Law ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
The Law

This book explains Indonesia’s complex legal system and how it works. Covering a wide range of substantive topics from public to private law, including commercial, criminal, and constitutional law, it is the first comprehensive survey of Indonesian law in English. Offering clear answers to practical problems of current law, each chapter sets out relevant laws and leading court decisions, accompanied by an explanation of how the law works in practice, with an analytical critique. The book begins with an account of Indonesia’s Constitution and the key state agencies, before moving to the lawmaking process, decentralization, the judicial system and court procedure, and the legal profession (advocates, notaries, and legal aid). Part II covers traditional customary law (adat), land law, and environmental law, including forest law. Part III focuses on criminal law and procedure, including investigation, arrest, trial, sentencing, and appeals. It also covers human rights law and the law on corruption. Part IV deals with civil law, and covers civil liability, contracts, companies and other business vehicles, labour, foreign investment, taxation, insolvency, banking, competition, and media law. The book concludes in Part V with an account of Indonesia’s complex family law and inheritance system for both Muslims and non-Muslims. The book has an extensive glossary of legal terms, and detailed tables of legislation and court decisions, designed as unique resources for lawyers, policymakers, and researchers.

scholarly journals Kedudukan Perempuan dalam Hukum Waris Adat Batak Toba

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elpina
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Customary Law ◽  
Social Culture ◽  
Kinship System ◽  
Law Enforcement Officials ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Right ◽  
Political Economic

Customary law is the law of life (living low) that grow and develop in the midst of the community in accordancewith the development of society. Customary law who live in midst of ethnic Indonesia is very strategic to be knownand understood by law enforcement officials, legal observers and guidance in applying the appropriate legal andfair for Indonesian society. The common law does not give the right role and the same degree between men andwomen in life, social, culture, political, economic and domestic life and marriage property and inheritance.Landing directly above the law would cause problems among indigenous peoples, especially the indigenous peopleembrace patrilinieal or matrilineal kinship system, such as that experienced by the Batak people who mbracepatrilineal kindship systems knows in Toba Batak society is patrilineal system, which through the male lineage andis the next generation of his parents while girls not the generation of their parents, as a result of this system is veryinfluential on the position of girls in matters of inheritance.

scholarly journals RIGHTS OWNERSHIP TO CERTIFIED LAND CONFRONTED WITH THE CUSTOMARY LAW IN THE LEGAL SYSTEM IN INDONESIA

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saim Aksnudin
Keyword(s):  
National Development ◽  
Land Rights ◽  
The State ◽  
Customary Law ◽  
Legal Certainty ◽  
The Status ◽  
Need For Support ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Right ◽  
Ownership Of Land

In the national development the role of land for the fulfillment of various purposes will increase, either as a place to live or for business activities. In relation to that will also increase the need for support in the form of guarantee of legal certainty in the field of land. The result of the research is the conception of the state of Indonesia is a state law, which contains the meaning in the administration of government and the state based on the law, the protection of the law is a universal concept of the rule of law. The legal certainty on land rights as intended by the UUPA encompasses three things, namely the certainty of the object of land rights, certainty on the subject of land rights and certainty about the status of landrights. Legal conception of land title certificate is a proof that issued by authorized legal institution, containing juridical data and physical data which isused as evidence of ownership of land rights in order to provide assurance of legal certainty and certainty of rights to a plot of land owned or possessed by a person or legal entity. With the certificate of rights, it is expected that the juridical can guarantee the legal certainty and the right by the state for the holder of the right to the land. This country's guarantee is granted to the owner or the holder of the certificate may be granted because the land is already registered in the state land administration system.

scholarly journals Keabsahan dan Pemakaian Arahan Amalan dalam Pentadbiran Kehakiman dari Perspektif Undang-Undang Syariah dan Sivil: Suatu Perbandingan

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-50
Author(s):  
Zubaidi Sulaiman ◽  
◽  
Ahmad Hidayat Buang
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Case Reports ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Civil Court ◽  
Legal Provisions ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Judicial Administration ◽  
Civil Courts ◽  
Research Analysis

Practice Directions have been introduced in the civil courts since 1946, and an adaptation of these was introduced in the Syariah courts in 2000. This article aims to explain the validity and position of the Practice Directions, as well as to compare these in terms of of legal provisions and application in the Syariah and civil courts. This research is a qualitative study involving library research (analysis of provisions of relevant laws and case reports), supplemented with interviews. It is found that Practice Directions were applied based on the provisions of the laws in force. However, there are differences in the position and application of Practice Directions between the Syariah courts and the civil courts in terms of source of authority, the authorities issuing the Practice Directions, enforcement and status, as well as the publication of Practice Directions. This study may serve as a guideline for JKSM and JKSN to re-evaluate and amend existing laws, or to form methods for Practice Directions for the courts to ensure that the ones used are valid and cannot be challenged by any party. Keywords: Practice Directions, judicial administration, Syariah court, civil court, shariah law, civil law, practice direction methods.

Compliance Problems and Digitizing Case Management in England and Wales

2020 ◽  
pp. 153-178
Author(s):  
John Sorabji
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Case Management ◽  
Civil Procedure ◽  
Civil Justice ◽  
Reform Programme ◽  
Effective Operation ◽  
Compliance Problem ◽  
Civil Justice System ◽  
Civil Courts ◽  
Potential Use

Compliance with case management orders has been a hidden problem undermining the effective operation of the Civil Procedure Rules. The focus of academic critique has, however, been on the adverse consequences to their effective operation of non-compliance with such orders. This chapter considers this unexamined problem of case management: the compliance problem. It first examines the nature of the compliance problem, placing it within the context of the wider and substantially explored problem of non-compliance; the latter having formed a major limb of Zuckerman’s critique of English civil procedure. It then explores how current and potential future reforms to the English civil justice system arising from HMCTS reform programme, the Civil Courts Structure review, digitization and the potential use of artificial intelligence (AI) could overcome this unexplored problem.

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