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Lloyd A. Fallers: Law without precedent: legal ideas in action in the courts of colonial Busoga. xiii, 365 pp. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1969. $12, £5 8s.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

A. N. Allott
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Bulletin of SOAS , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , February 1971 , pp. 199 - 201
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1971

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References

1 See Allott, A. N., New essays in African law, 1970, 150 ff.Google Scholar, and the Uganda decision of Kajubi v. Kabali (1944).

2 Hart, H. L. A, The concept of law, 1961 Google Scholar.

3 A close parallel, perhaps, with Switzerland and the respective positions of High German and Swiss-German.

4 This point was argued by Velsen, J. van in his ‘Procedural informality, reconciliation, and false comparisons’, in Gluckman, M. (ed.), Ideas and procedures in African customary law, 1969 Google Scholar.