The making of South African legal culture 1902-1936 : fear, favour and prejudice / Martin Chanock.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001

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Law -- South Africa -- History.

Lawyers -- South Africa -- History.

Part I. Puzzles, paradigms and problems

1. Four stories

2. Legal cultures, state making and colonialism

Part II. Law and order

3. Police and policing

4. Criminology

5. Prisons and penology

6. Criminal law

Part III. South African common law A

8. Roman-Dutch law

9. Marriage and race

10. The legal profession

Part IV. South African common law B

11. Creating the discourse : customary law and colonial rule in South Africa

12. After union : the segregationist tide

13. The native appeal courts and customary law

14. Customary law, courts and code after 1927

Part V. Law and government

15. Land

16. Law and labour

17. The new province for law and order : struggles on the racial frontier

18. A rule of law

Part VI. Consideration

19. Reconstructing the state : legal formalism, democracy and a post-colonial rule of law.

Includes bibliography and index.

The making of South African legal cutlure 1902-1936.

0521791561

xv, 571 pages