law-ways

English

Noun

law-ways pl (normally plural, singular law-way)

1. A community's specific set of laws and legal practices.
   • 1941, K. N. Llewellyn, E. Adamson Hoebel, The Cheyenne Way: Conflict and Case Law in Primitive Jurisprudence‎^[1], University of Oklahoma Press, page 38:

     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.

   • 1997, Irene Watson, “Indigenous Peoples' Law-Ways: Survival Against the Colonial State”, in Australian Feminist Law Journal, volume 8, number 1, →DOI, page 45:

     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.

   • 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:

     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 ...