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Little is known of the legal system in those days but it is generally accepted that the law administered then was a combination of Muslim law and the "Adat Temenggung" (patriarchal Malay customary law). The "Adat Temengung" was the law of the Sultan or the law ordained by the rulers and later adopted in the other regions of Peninsular Malaysia.
A legal tradition or legal family is a grouping of laws or legal systems based on shared features or historical relationships. [1] Common examples include the common law tradition and civil law tradition. Many other legal traditions have also been recognized. The concepts of legal system, legal tradition, and legal culture are closely related.
In international law, customary law refers to the Law of Nations or the legal norms that have developed through the customary exchanges between states over time, whether based on diplomacy or aggression. Essentially, legal obligations are believed to arise between states to carry out their affairs consistently with past accepted conduct.
Legal history or the history of law is the study of how law has evolved and why it has changed. Legal history is closely connected to the development of civilizations [ 1 ] and operates in the wider context of social history .
Comparative legal history is the study of law in two or more different places or at different times. [1] [2] [3] As a discipline, it emerged between 1930 and 1960 in response to legal formalism, [4] and builds on scattered uses of legal-historical comparison since antiquity. [5]
The contemporary national legal systems are generally based on one of four major legal traditions: civil law, common law, customary law, religious law or combinations of these. However, the legal system of each country is shaped by its unique history and so incorporates individual variations. [ 1 ]
Due to the influence of the European colonization, its present legal framework consists of a mixture of legal systems of English common law, Roman-Dutch civil law and Customary Law. [ 34 ] Under the British Raj and since India adopted the British legal system with a major role for courts and lawyers, as typified by the nationalist leaders ...
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