Customary international law is an important source of international environmental law.

Customary international law is derived from the consistent practice of States accompanied by opinio juris, i. e. the conviction of States that the consistent practice is required by a legal obligation.

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The Customary Senate is the assembly of the various traditional councils of the Kanaks, and has jurisdiction over the law proposals concerning the Kanak identity.

In its advisory role, the Customary Senate must be consulted on law proposals " concerning the Kanak identity " as defined in the Noumea Accord.

* Customary law, which is derived from indigenous traditional norms and practices ;

* Customary law was not a rational and consistent body of rules and does not require a system of binding precedent.

Customary law was non-existent in Inuit society before the introduction of the Canadian legal system.

* Customary international law

* Scriven, John, ( Serjeant at law ), A treatise on copyhold, customary freehold, and ancient demesne tenure: with the jurisdiction of Courts baron and Courts leet ; also an appendix, containing rules for holding Customary courts, Courts baron and Courts leet, forms of court rolls, deputations, and copyhold assurances, and extracts from the relative acts of Parliament, 2 vols., 2nd.

* Customary international humanitarian law

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" Customary law exists where:

Customary international law can be distinguished from treaty law, which consists of explicit agreements between nations to assume obligations.

Customary law is a recognized source of law within jurisdictions of the civil law tradition, inferior to both statutes and regulations.

Customary law is also used in some Third World countries, such as those in Africa, usually used alongside common or civil law.

* Customary law ( Australia )

* Customary law ( South Africa )

* Customary international law

Customary law is also considered more than just bride price but other rituals and ceremonies that enrich Ugandan cultures.

The Customary Senate is composed of sixteen members appointed by each traditional council, with two representatives per each customary area.

In US Customary Units and British Imperial Units, volumetric flow rate is often expressed as ft < sup > 3 </ sup >/ s ( cubic feet per second ).

For comparison, typical wall insulation is 13 ( US Customary ) or 2. 7 ( Metric ) for the same thickness.

Customary law, dealt with what in the West is termed private law or civil law.

Within the United States, the same term is commonly used to refer to the United States Customary System, which retains some unit names but with different values, as well as to the imperial units.

In that year he also published two books, Makers of Nigerian Law and The Nature of African Customary Law.

It also discovered that the agitation of the Muslims in the selected states for Shari ' ah was based on the premise that both Yoruba Customary and Common Laws did not cover certain provisions under Shari ’ ah, such as ‘ iddah ‘ waiting period for a widow ’, al-hadanah ‘ custody of children ’ and mirath ‘ inheritance ’.

Provincial Regulation No. 2 / 1990 ( Establishment and Development of Local Culture, Community Conventions and Customary Institutions in Aceh ) recognised Panglima Laôt as the responsible party in maintaining local customs in marine ( capture ) fisheries.

Customary celebrations and lifestyles are among the traditions that are sought to be preserved.

Customary beliefs of a more modern sort are found among followers of the Nagriamel movement based in Fanafo.

These are the Marriage Act ( Act 25 of 1961 ), which provides for civil or religious opposite-sex marriages ; the Recognition of Customary Marriages Act ( Act 120 of 1998 ), which provides for the civil registration of marriages solemnised according to the traditions of indigenous groups ; and the Civil Union Act ( Act 17 of 2006 ), which provides for opposite-sex and same-sex civil marriages, religious marriages and civil partnerships.

Customary Cambodian teachings are laid out in verse form in long works from the 14th to 18th centuries collectively called Chhbap (" rules " or " codes ").

Customary international law are those aspects of international law that derive from custom.

Hence, the laws in force are in hierarchical order are The Hong Kong Basic Law ; legislation in force before 1 July 1997 that was adopted as laws of the HKSAR by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress ; laws enacted by the Legislative Council of Hong Kong after 1997 ; and PRC laws listed in Annex III to the Basic Law and applied by way of promulgation or legislation ; Common law and Equity ; Subordinate legislation ; Customary law.

Non-metric units which are still in use ( eg, mile ) should be categorized at: Category: Customary units of measure.

Customary Senate rules were ignored in order to speed approval of the Negro leader as administrator of the housing and home finance agency.

* Customary acre-The customary acre was a measure of roughly similar size to the acre described above, but it was subject to considerable local variation similar to the variation found in carucates, virgates, bovates, nooks, and farundels.

* South Africa: Legalized for indigenous, black traditionalists by the Customary Marriages Act 120 of 1998.

Customary law takes precedence over Republic law.

A Pyrex measuring cup manufactured circa 1980, featuring graduations in both metric and U. S. Customary systems.

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

The enormous changes in world politics have, however, thrown it into confusion, so much so that it is safe to say that all international law is now in need of reexamination and clarification in light of the social conditions of the present era.

To him, law is the command of the sovereign ( the English monarch ) who personifies the power of the nation, while sovereignty is the power to make law -- i.e., to prevail over internal groups and to be free from the commands of other sovereigns in other nations.

Moreover, the law of the land is not irrevocable ; ;

That is to say Gabriel's fundamental law had been so much modified by this time that it was neither fundamental nor law any more.

It is a weakness of Gabriel's analysis that he never seems to realize that his so-called fundamental law had already been cut loose from its foundations when it was adapted to democracy.

Mr. Stavropoulos is the U.N. legal chief and a very good man, but he is not fully versed on some technical points of American law ''.

His father was a professor at Hartford Theological Seminary, and from him he acquired a conviction, which he passed along to me, that there is in the universe of persons a moral law, the law of love, which is a natural law in the same sense as is the physical law.