Customary law (Topical Term)

Indiana University website, Jan. 25, 2008 (Commission on Folk Law and Legal Pluralism: established in 1978 by the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES). A network of approximately 400 lawyers, anthropologists and other social scientists as well as NGO activists and policy makers representing all regions of the world and concerned with state law, folk law and international law in both theory and practice)

Hartland, Edwin Sidney, 1848-1927. Primitive law, 1924: page 3 (primitive law, the rules which govern societies in the lower culture)

West's legal thesaurus/dictionary, 1985: page 601 primitive, see aboriginal, native, simple, innocent)

Black's law dictionary, 2009: page 443 (customary law, law consisting of customs that are accepted as legal requirements or obligatory rules of conduct)

Science direct website, viewed October 22, 2021: Traditional law (the terms 'traditional law', 'customary law', 'indigenous law', 'folk law', and--for Indonesia--ʻadat law' are often used interchangeably; each one carries its own connotations; the problem with terms like customary and traditional is that they refer to a presumed unchanged past, though in fact each kind of law is subject to continuous change)

Oxford reference (online), viewed October 22, 2021: Customary law (the traditional law of indigenous peoples, generally oral; see Aboriginal customary law)

JSTOR, Traditional, national, and international law and indigenous communities, 2020, viewed October 22, 2021: Introduction (traditional or customary law is the root of a legal renaissance in many Indigenous nations and communities)