Customary Legal Systems
- Adat (Malays of Nusantara)
- Anglo-Saxon law (England)
- Aqsaqal (Central Asia)
- Coutume (France)
- Customary law (Australia)
- Early Germanic law
- Early Irish law (Ireland)
- Laws of the Brets and Scots (Scotland)
- Medieval Scandinavian laws
- Pashtunwali and Jirga (Pashtuns of Pakistan and Afghanistan)
- Smriti and Ācāra (India)
- Customary law (South Africa)
- Urf (Arab world/Islamic law)
- Welsh Law (Wales)
- Xeer (Somalia)
- Usos y costumbres (various regions of Latin America)
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