Digest of Customary Laws. The courts below have
categorically held the law to be applicable in the instant case is the
customary law having regard ... also subject to applicability of customary law.
25. As statutory law did not exclude the applicability of the
customary law, the principle that customary law
their respective castes and French law has become the law of the land though in matter of personal law it was applicable only to settlors ... Law and espouse the French law. People, who availed this opportunity and exercised the option to renounce their Personal Laws, emerging out of customary rights
Uraon community and claim to be guided by the customary laws, prevailing in their community in the matter of inheritance and succession.
3. The lands ... Turchu Mahato.
4. The plaintiffs have pleaded that according to the customary law of the Uraon Community, if a person dies without a male issue
their respective castes and French law has become the law of the land though in matter of personal law it was applicable only to settlors ... Law and espouse the French law. People, who availed this opportunity and exercised the option to renounce their Personal Laws, emerging out of customary rights
South Africa). This scheme was purporting to give effect
to the customary law of succession where principle of male primogeniture is
central to customary law ... majority that the rule of male primogeniture as it
applied in customary law to the inheritance of property was inconsistent with
the constitution and invalid
right in the estate of Badlu and Mam Chand?
The Customary Law of District Rohtak written by E. Joseph, ICS, Settlement Officer while answering ... rights in her husband's estates under the customary law as applicable to the District of Rohtak.
15. After framing of the additional issue
burden of proof on the appellant (widow) to establish the customary law of Thiyyas of Calicut gives right to the widow of the deceased person ... treated as the customary law. Since the parties are Thiyyas of Kozhikode Taluk, the law governing them is custody law known as "Makkathayam
could not have
intended to encroach upon right which existed under
customary law and which it widened by adding explanation to
Section 30 .
.......... The legislature ... exist in joint family property or in various
other properties under customary law. That has now been
dependent on agriculture pursuit and is, thus, governed by the Punjab Customary Laws. It was further claimed that after the death of Ganda Singh ... court was not justified in holding that plaintiff was governed by customary laws in the matter of adoption and succession. Learned counsel argued that
selecting the best customary rulings and applying these outside their county of origin, the circuit judges, gradually, molded existing local customary laws into one uniform ... local customary laws to make one uniform body of law called 'common law'. Though the 'common law' was largely said
