SOSC 4351 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Weregild, Francis Jennings, Victims Family

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 4351
• Professor: Jonathan Rudin

Document Summary

Aboriginal concepts of law and justice - the historical realities. Today"s canadian laws and legal institutions trace their origins to the common law of. England and the civil law of france: further back, many concepts of western law is also found in roman and greek legal thought. This led to a dismissal of complex aboriginal cultural systems as not being legal" and to a denigration of societies bounded only by primitive custom". This same dismissive approach has characterized western views of. The evidence about indian communities implies structures of political association irreconcilable with assumptions of anarchy. Kinship state - a community of families and clans in which some of the ordering functions of society are performed by the kin groups individually while others are assigned to officers and counsellors chosen cooperatively. In this structure, there was no law in european sense and no specialized apparatus of law enforcement.