colonial law
Occupier's legal system
Colonial law is the legal system imposed by a colonizing power on a territory under its control.
It typically blends the colonizer's laws with modified or suppressed local customs: Colonial law often displaced indigenous legal traditions.
The term also refers to this body of law as a subject of historical study.
In former colonies, vestiges of colonial law persist in modern legal codes long after independence.
- charterFounding organizational document
- penal codeLaws governing offenses
- pass lawsFormally adopt binding rules
- magistrateCivil judicial officer
- jurisdictionLegal authority's scope
forced labor · order · servitude · head tax · land seizure · tenure · viceroy · peonage · capitulations · Code Noir · color bar · decree · extraterritoriality · ordinance · plantation · expropriation · manumission · martial law
- lawlaw, lawyer, lawyers, attorney, attorneys
- colonialismcolonization, colonizer, colonies, British Empire, colonizers
- legal systemsconstitutional law, judiciary, criminal code, court system, penal code
- legal historylegal history, medieval law, Roman law, Roman jurisprudence, common law
- African lawconstitutional court, indigenous law, high court, court of appeal, attorney general
- Asian lawIslamic law, qadi, mufti, fatwa, panchayat
colonial lawindigenous law
Native peoples' legal traditions
traditional law · popular sovereignty · home rule · self-governance · national sovereignty