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In many parts of Africa three different systems of laws are
concurrently applied - the imported "Colonial" law, the indigenous
customary law and Islamic law. In some countries the customary and
the Islamic law are kept separate and distinct, while in others
they are fused into a single system. This volume represents a
unique survey of the extent to which Islamic law is in fact applied
in those parts of East and West Africa which were at one time under
British administration. It examines the relevant legislation and
case law, much of which has never appeared in any Law Reports; the
judges and courts which apply it and the problems to which its
application give rise.
In many parts of Africa three different systems of laws are
concurrently applied - the imported "Colonial" law, the indigenous
customary law and Islamic law. In some countries the customary and
the Islamic law are kept separate and distinct, while in others
they are fused into a single system. This volume represents a
unique survey of the extent to which Islamic law is in fact applied
in those parts of East and West Africa which were at one time under
British administration. It examines the relevant legislation and
case law, much of which has never appeared in any Law Reports; the
judges and courts which apply it and the problems to which its
application give rise.
Norman Anderson has written a gripping story of one of the
engineering marvels of both the nineteenth and the twentieth
century, the ferris wheel. The idea of this contraption may be as
old as the water wheel, and written descriptions and drawings of
pleasure wheels go back at least four centuries. There have been
dozens of experiments with design and construction--early portable
wheels by Strobel, the Condermans, Sullivan and others;
one-of-a-kind wheels like Schnitzler's Asbury Park wheel with a
tower and Stubb's water-turned wheel at Electric Park in Waterloo,
Iowa; giant wheels in London, Blackpool, Vienna, Paris and recently
in Japan.
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