law-ways
noun1
Plural normally A community's specific set of laws and legal practices.
- We have aimed at the development of a social science instrument for the recording and interpretation of law-ways among primitive peoples; the Cheyennes and their Way provide the subject material.1941, K. N. Llewellyn, E. Adamson Hoebel, The Cheyenne Way: Conflict and Case Law in Primitive Jurisprudence, University of Oklahoma Press, page 38:
- Indigenous Peoples' law-ways are similar throughout Australia and the world. We share a belief in the creation, a time in which the law itself was created.1997, Irene Watson, “Indigenous Peoples' Law-Ways: Survival Against the Colonial State”, in Australian Feminist Law Journal, volume 8, number 1, →DOI, page 45:
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- Communitarian justice generally employs local or indigenous law-ways and not state law; is bound up with attempts to create a new religious or utopian social order, advocates decentralization and the application of community norms instead of legal rules of procedure; and focuses on feelings and individual expression ...2003, Randall Amster, “Restoring (Dis)order: Sanctions, Resolutions, and 'Social Control' in Anarchist Communities”, in Contemporary Justice Review, volume 6, number 1, →DOI, page 18: