Written by Priyadarshni M. Gangte
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20 June 2010
By Priyadarshni M. Gangte
1. Introduction: Customary Law means those rules and principles which have been observed in a particular community in actual practice for a long time, i.e. time immemorial i.e. where the memory of man runneth not to the contrary (Dr. H.N. Tewari : Legal Research Methodology, Asian Offset Press, Faridabad, 1999 (Reprint), p.45). It is most commonly used to describe the largely written indigenous laws of the indigenous people especially with the tribes recogni ...
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