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The Unification of Laws in East Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Eugene Cotran
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In examining the question of the unification of laws in East Africa, we must bear in mind that we are faced with two distinct problems: on the one hand, territorial unification of the different types of law prevailing within each territory; and on the other, inter-territorial unification as between the systems of law in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanganyika.

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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , June 1963 , pp. 209 - 220
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1963

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page 209 note 1 The dates are: Kenya, 12 August 1987; Uganda, 11 August 1902; Tanganyika, 22 July 1920.

page 210 note 1 See Cotran, E., ‘Recent Changes in the Uganda Legal System’, in Journal of African Law, VI, 3 (London, 1962).Google Scholar

page 211 note 1 This Court has now been abolished, and replaced by the Court of Appeal for Eastern Africa, set up under an Act of the East African Common Services Organisation (no. 13 of 1962).

page 211 note 2 Appeals to the Privy Council from the courts of Tanganyika were abolished as from 9 December 1962.

page 212 note 1 Whitfield, G. M. B., South African Native Law (Capetown, 2nd edn., 1984), p. 4.Google Scholar

page 212 note 2 Dundas, C., ‘Native Laws of some Bantu Tribes of East Africa’, in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institite, LI (London, 1921), p. 217.Google Scholar

page 212 note 3 Oldaker, A. A., ‘Tribal Customary Land Tenure in Tanganyika’, in Tanganyika Notes and Records, no. 47–8 (Dar es Salaam, 1957), p. 117.Google Scholar

page 215 note 1 See Cotran, E., Report on Customary Criminal Offences in Kenya (Nairobi, 1963).Google Scholar

page 215 note 2 For details of this work, see Cotran, E., ‘Some Recent Developments in the Tanganyika Judicial System’, in Journal of African Law, VI, 1 (London, 1962).Google Scholar

page 216 note 1 The Future of Law in Africa, a record of the conference edited by Allott, A. N. (London, 1960), p. 37.Google Scholar

page 216 note 2 For further details, see Report on Customary Criminal Offences in Kenya.

page 218 note 1 The Future of Law in Africa, p. 40.