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legal systems of aboriginal and indigenous peoples  

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  • The legal systems of non-Western peoples deserve special treatment. Some legal philosophers have argued that because folk and customary law, as non-Western legal systems are sometimes known, are (usually) oral, they represent ancient, unchanging law, as opposed to Western written law, which is new, a distinction lacking empirical foundation. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives; Aboriginal and Indigenous Peoples, Legal Systems Of]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-P57WVJ5V-Z

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