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Characteristics of Customary Law

Conditions for the enforcement of a custom

How questions of customary law are decided

Meaning and characteristics of Customary Law

Meaning of Customary Law

Principles for determining whether a transaction evidenced by or reduced to writing should be held to be governed or regulated by customary law

The principle that where customary law conflicts with a statute, the statute prevails

The rule of customary law where a man dies without a male issue to succeed him

The rule that any custom which discriminates against persons on the basis of their gender, sex, age or birth is unconstitutional

What customary law connotes

When a decision will be said to be in respect of a question of customary law

Whether an issue of jurisdiction raises the question of customary law

Whether children can claim any specific share of their parents' property

Whether customary law is abrogated by a statutory declaration of the law

Whether customary law is static

Whether customary law is universal

Whether customary law operates on principles such as cross-examination

Whether the concept of writing is known to customary law

Whether there is a general application of customary law to all communities in Ghana

Whether the rules of fair hearing have been integrated into customary law

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