B) I am afraid, I can’t agree with it

1. Muslim law is based on the Koran.

2. The number of Muslim countries is decreasing.

3. In its strongest formulations some Islamic scholars think that state has no power to legislate.

4. Some Muslim countries are influenced by civil law, others - by common law.

5. It is easy to find roots of the Hindu law.

6. It is not difficult to unify postulates of the Hindu law.

7. The Muslim law precepts cover as many sides of life as secular systems do.

TEXT 2

Customary Law

Vocabulary

1. Customary law – традиционное право

2. Napoleonic Civil Code – гражданский кодекс Наполеона

3.prior to colonial influences – до влияния колониальных стран

4. following the colonization – вслед за колонизацией

5. the earliest systems of law – самые ранние системы права

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1. What are the characteristic features of Customary law?

2. What is the main source of Customary law?

Customary Lawis a type of legal system that serves as the basis of, or has influenced, present-day laws in approximately 40 countries – mostly in Africa, but some in the Pacific islands, Europe, and the Middle East. Customary law is also referred to as "primitive law," "unwritten law," "indigenous law," and "folk law." There is no single history of customary law such as that found in Roman civil law, English common law, Islamic law, or the Napoleonic Civil Code. The earliest systems of law in human society were customary, and usually developed in small agrarian and hunter-gatherer communities.

As the term implies, customary law is based upon the customs of a community. Common attributes of customary legal systems are that they are seldom written down, they embody an organized set of rules regulating social relations, and they are agreed upon by members of the community. Although such law systems include sanctions for law infractions, resolution tends to be reconciliatory rather than punitive. A number of African states practiced customary law many centuries prior to colonial influences. Following colonization, such laws were written down and incorporated to varying extents into the legal systems imposed by their colonial powers.

Найдите в тексте английские эквиваленты следующим русским словосочетаниям.

1) включать санкции

2) термин

3) может также называться

4) служить основой или испытывать влияние

5) входить в состав правовой системы

6) обнаружить

7) иметь тенденцию к мирному решению вопроса

8) регулировать общественные отношения