Making of South African Legal Culture, 1902-1936: Fear, Favour and Prejudice

Hardcover
from $0.00

Author: Martin Chanock

ISBN-10: 0521791561

ISBN-13: 9780521791564

Category: Africa - Law

Search in google:

Definitive perspective on the development of the South African legal system in the early twentieth century.

PrefaceAcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsPt. IPuzzles, paradigms and problems1Four stories32Legal culture, state making and colonialism20Pt. IILaw and order3Police and policing454Criminology615Prisons and penology976Criminal law1147Criminalising political opposition133Pt. IIISouth African common law A8Roman-Dutch law1559Marriage and race19710The legal profession211Pt. IVSouth African common law B11Creating the discourse: customary law and colonial rule in South Africa24312After Union: the segregationist tide27313The native appeal courts and customary law29114Customary law, courts and code after 1927328Pt. VLaw and government15Land36116Law and labour40617The new province for law and order: struggles on the racial frontier43718A rule of law470Pt. VIConsideration19Reconstructing the state: legal formalism, democracy and a post-colonial rule of law511Bibliography539Index555Index of legal cases cited569