African customary law is confied system of law which has no binding authority of source of law in South African courts. true of false
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- There is no codification of South African law, because it is not recorded in one single piece of legislation. Their law has been influenced by Roman; Roman-Dutch and English law, given the history of their nation.
- The Roman law is based on Europe's impact and attempts to codify the law into Corpus Iuris Civilis in AD 291 and remains a significant and credible source upon which South Africa's courts can rely on some legal issues.
- Roman-Netherlands legislation comes into legal system of South African, as the first settlers in Cape brought it with them as their laws were incorporated into Dutch customary law over time after the collapse of the Roman empire.
- After the Cape was ceded to Great Britain after 1814, English law found its way into the southern African system of rule. Part of the legal system has been slowly adopted, such as the criminal law law code of 1826, and the proof law of 1830
- South African legislation has many sources. There are other sources. It is of vital significance that lawyers are informed of these numerous sources that provide the key to the substance of the law. Common law, laws or regulations, judicial precedents (trial decisions), indigenous law, traditions and legal scholarly texts
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