# bib

id: Angola-1260
author: Angola
title: Angola-1260
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 52
sentence: 1
flesch: 0
cache: cache/Angola-1260.txt
txt: txt/Angola-1260.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Recognition of the institutions of the traditional authorities shall oblige public and private entities to respect, in their relations with these institutions, the values and norms of customary law that are observed within traditional political and community organisations and do not conflict with the Constitution or the dignity of the human person.


id: Bolivia-0164
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-0164
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 40
sentence: 1
flesch: 26
cache: cache/Bolivia-0164.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-0164.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The nations and the rural native indigenous peoples that live in isolation and out of contact enjoy the right to maintain themselves in that condition, and to the legal definition and consolidation of the territory which they occupy and inhabit.


id: Angola-1262
author: Angola
title: Angola-1262
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 36
sentence: 1
flesch: 10
cache: cache/Angola-1262.txt
txt: txt/Angola-1262.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The traditional authorities shall be the entities which personify and exercise power within the respective political and community organisations, in accordance with the values and norms of customary law and respecting the Constitution and the law.


id: Bolivia-0159
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-0159
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 30
sentence: 1
flesch: 10
cache: cache/Bolivia-0159.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-0159.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  To autonomous indigenous territorial management, and to the exclusive use and exploitation of renewable natural resources existing in their territory without prejudice to the legitimate rights acquired by third parties.


id: Bolivia-0050
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-0050
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 34
sentence: 1
flesch: 18
cache: cache/Bolivia-0050.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-0050.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Communal, by means of the election, designation or nomination of the authorities and representatives pursuant to the norms and procedures of the native indigenous nations and peoples, among others, in accordance with the law.


id: Bolivia-0384
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-0384
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 32
sentence: 1
flesch: 15
cache: cache/Bolivia-0384.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-0384.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The public universities, within the framework of their statutes, shall establish decentralized academic and inter-cultural programs pursuant to the necessities of the State and the nations and rural native indigenous peoples.


id: Angola-0045
author: Angola
title: Angola-0045
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 22
sentence: 1
flesch: 53
cache: cache/Angola-0045.txt
txt: txt/Angola-0045.txt
type: competitive
summary:
  The validity and legal force of custom which does not contradict the Constitution and does not threaten human dignity shall be recognised.


id: Bolivia-0144
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-0144
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 15
sentence: 1
flesch: 39
cache: cache/Bolivia-0144.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-0144.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  To their cultural identity, religious belief, spiritualities, practices and customs, and their own world view.


id: Bolivia-0952
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-0952
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 18
sentence: 1
flesch: 33
cache: cache/Bolivia-0952.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-0952.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The nations and rural native indigenous peoples may elect their candidates according to their own democratic communitarian norms.


id: Bolivia-0166
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-0166
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 30
sentence: 1
flesch: 26
cache: cache/Bolivia-0166.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-0166.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The Afro-Bolivian people enjoy, in everything corresponding, the economic, social, political and cultural rights that are recognized in the Constitution for the nations and the rural native indigenous peoples.


id: Angola-1264
author: Angola
title: Angola-1264
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 40
sentence: 1
flesch: -30
cache: cache/Angola-1264.txt
txt: txt/Angola-1264.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The attributions, responsibilities, organisation, system of control, liability and assets of the institutions of the traditional authorities, their institutional relations with state local administration and local authority administration bodies and the types of traditional authorities shall be regulated by law.


id: Bolivia-1786
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1786
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 33
sentence: 1
flesch: 16
cache: cache/Bolivia-1786.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1786.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The State shall recognize, respect and protect the uses and customs of the community, of its local authorities and the rural native indigenous organizations over the right, management and administration of sustainable water.


id: Bolivia-1428
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1428
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 18
sentence: 1
flesch: 28
cache: cache/Bolivia-1428.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1428.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  To plan, design, construct, conserve and administer roads in coordination with the rural native indigenous villages when necessary.


id: Bolivia-1477
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1477
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 18
sentence: 1
flesch: 33
cache: cache/Bolivia-1477.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1477.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Administration and preservation of protected areas within their jurisdiction, within the framework of the policy of the State.


id: Bolivia-1850
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1850
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 54
sentence: 3
flesch: 24
cache: cache/Bolivia-1850.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1850.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  Legally acquired rights by individual owners, whose piece of land is inside rural native indigenous territories, are guaranteed. Its maximum and minimum dimensions, characteristics and forms of conversion shall be regulated by law.


id: Bolivia-1266
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1266
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 25
sentence: 1
flesch: 46
cache: cache/Bolivia-1266.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1266.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Each rural, native, or indigenous autonomy shall draft its Statute according to its own norms and procedures, in conformity with the Constitution and the law.


id: Bolivia-0161
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-0161
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 24
sentence: 1
flesch: 45
cache: cache/Bolivia-0161.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-0161.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The State guarantees, respects and protects the rights of the nations and the rural native indigenous peoples consecrated in this Constitution and the law.


id: Bolivia-0126
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-0126
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 26
sentence: 1
flesch: 24
cache: cache/Bolivia-0126.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-0126.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The direct election, designation and nomination of the representatives of the nations and the rural native indigenous peoples, in accordance with their own norms and procedures.


id: Bolivia-1216
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1216
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 37
sentence: 1
flesch: 27
cache: cache/Bolivia-1216.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1216.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The Departmental Assembly shall be composed of members elected by universal, direct, free, secret and obligatory vote; and by members elected by the nations and rural native indigenous peoples, in accordance with their own norms and procedures.


id: Bolivia-1467
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1467
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 42
sentence: 1
flesch: -11
cache: cache/Bolivia-1467.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1467.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The rural native indigenous villages, in addition to their authority, shall assume that of municipalities, in accordance with a process of institutional development and with their own cultural characteristics in conformity with the Constitution and the Framework Law of Autonomies and Decentralization.


id: Bolivia-1471
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1471
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 17
sentence: 1
flesch: 55
cache: cache/Bolivia-1471.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1471.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  To elaborate their Statute for the exercise of their autonomy pursuant to the Constitution and the law.


id: Bolivia-0403
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-0403
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 23
sentence: 1
flesch: 36
cache: cache/Bolivia-0403.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-0403.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The State takes strength from the existence of rural native indigenous cultures, which are custodians of knowledge, wisdom, values, spiritualities and world views.


id: Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo-0162
author: Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo
title: Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo-0162
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 19
sentence: 1
flesch: 49
cache: cache/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo-0162.txt
txt: txt/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo-0162.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The State guarantees the right to individual or collective property, acquired in conformity to the law or to custom.


id: Bolivia-1879
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1879
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 98
sentence: 2
flesch: 0
cache: cache/Bolivia-1879.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1879.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The integrity of rural native indigenous territory is recognized, which includes the right to land, to the use and exclusive exploitation of the renewable natural resources under conditions determined by law, to prior and informed consultation, to participation in the benefits of the exploitation of the non-renewable natural resources that are found in their territory, to the authority to apply their own norms, administered by their structures of representation, and to define their development pursuant to their own cultural criteria and principles of harmonious coexistence with nature. The rural native indigenous territories may be composed of communities.


id: Colombia-1516
author: Colombia
title: Colombia-1516
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 47
sentence: 2
flesch: 10
cache: cache/Colombia-1516.txt
txt: txt/Colombia-1516.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  In the decisions adopted with respect to said exploitation, the government shall encourage the participation of the representatives of the respective communities. The exploitation of the natural resources in the indigenous territories shall be done without impairing the cultural, social, and economic integrity of the indigenous communities.


id: Bolivia-0915
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-0915
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 32
sentence: 2
flesch: 31
cache: cache/Bolivia-0915.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-0915.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The legal consultations of the rural native indigenous authorities on the application of their juridical norms as applied in a concrete case. Compliance with the decision of the Constitutional Court is obligatory.


id: Angola-0463
author: Angola
title: Angola-0463
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 31
sentence: 1
flesch: 47
cache: cache/Angola-0463.txt
txt: txt/Angola-0463.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The state shall recognise and protect the right of rural communities to use and benefit from the means of production, under the terms of the Constitution, the law and customary law.


id: Angola-0930
author: Angola
title: Angola-0930
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 25
sentence: 1
flesch: 29
cache: cache/Angola-0930.txt
txt: txt/Angola-0930.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The basic elements of the system for the organisation and functioning of local government and the involvement of citizens and traditional authorities in its work;


id: Bolivia-1260
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1260
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 39
sentence: 1
flesch: 19
cache: cache/Bolivia-1260.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1260.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The formation of rural native indigenous autonomy is based on ancestral territories, currently inhabited by those peoples and nations, and pursuant to the will of their population as expressed through consultation, in accordance with the Constitution and the law.


id: Bolivia-0151
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-0151
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 19
sentence: 1
flesch: 36
cache: cache/Bolivia-0151.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-0151.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  That their traditional teachings and knowledge, their traditional medicine, languages, rituals, symbols and dress be valued, respected and promoted.


id: Bolivia-0868
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-0868
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 25
sentence: 1
flesch: 29
cache: cache/Bolivia-0868.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-0868.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  To secure compliance with the decisions of the rural native indigenous jurisdiction, its authorities may request the support of the competent bodies of the State.


id: Bolivia-1830
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1830
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 25
sentence: 1
flesch: 35
cache: cache/Bolivia-1830.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1830.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The rural native indigenous communities located within forest areas shall have the exclusive right to their exploitation and their management, in accordance with the law.


id: Chad-0613
author: Chad
title: Chad-0613
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 18
sentence: 1
flesch: 28
cache: cache/Chad-0613.txt
txt: txt/Chad-0613.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  Until their codification, the customary and traditional rules are only applicable in the communities where they are recognized.


id: Bolivia-0977
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-0977
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 30
sentence: 1
flesch: 38
cache: cache/Bolivia-0977.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-0977.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The Public Defender shall also promote the defense of the rights of the nations and rural native indigenous peoples, of urban and intercultural communities, and of Bolivians who are abroad.


id: Bolivia-0861
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-0861
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 26
sentence: 1
flesch: 24
cache: cache/Bolivia-0861.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-0861.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The rural native indigenous jurisdiction is based on the specific connection between the persons who are members of the respective nation or rural native indigenous people.


id: Bolivia-0411
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-0411
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 36
sentence: 1
flesch: 22
cache: cache/Bolivia-0411.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-0411.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The State shall protect this wisdom and knowledge through the registration of the intellectual property that safeguards the intangible rights of the nations and rural native indigenous peoples and of the intercultural and Afro-Bolivian communities.


id: Bolivia-0864
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-0864
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 17
sentence: 1
flesch: 5
cache: cache/Bolivia-0864.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-0864.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  This jurisdiction hears rural native indigenous matters pursuant to that established in a law of Jurisdictional Demarcation.


id: Bolivia-1497
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1497
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 24
sentence: 1
flesch: 20
cache: cache/Bolivia-1497.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1497.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The safeguard and registration of collective intellectual property related to knowledge of genetic resources, traditional medicine and germ plasma, in accordance with the law.


id: Bolivia-1474
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1474
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 22
sentence: 1
flesch: 38
cache: cache/Bolivia-1474.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1474.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Elaboration of Plans of Land Regulation and land use, in coordination with the plans at the central State, departmental and municipal levels.


id: Bolivia-0195
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-0195
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 44
sentence: 1
flesch: 23
cache: cache/Bolivia-0195.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-0195.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  It is the responsibility of the State to promote and guarantee the respect for, and the use, research and practice of traditional medicine, rescuing ancestral knowledge and practices created from the thinking and values of all the nations and the rural native indigenous peoples.


id: Bolivia-1236
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1236
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 36
sentence: 2
flesch: 28
cache: cache/Bolivia-1236.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1236.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The Organic Municipal Charter shall define its application, according to the specific reality and conditions of its jurisdiction. The law shall determine the general criterion for the election and determine the number of municipal council members.


id: Benin-0342
author: Benin
title: Benin-0342
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 21
sentence: 1
flesch: 32
cache: cache/Benin-0342.txt
txt: txt/Benin-0342.txt
type: competitive
summary:
  The procedure according to which customary laws shall be recorded and brought into harmony with the fundamental principles of the Constitution;


id: Bolivia-1270
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1270
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 19
sentence: 1
flesch: 4
cache: cache/Bolivia-1270.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1270.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Statute shall establish the minimum population requirements and other modalities for the constitution of an indigenous peasant farmer autonomy.


id: Bolivia-1194
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1194
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 13
sentence: 1
flesch: -27
cache: cache/Bolivia-1194.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1194.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  Bolivia is organized territorially into departments, provinces, municipalities and rural native indigenous territories.


id: Bolivia-0353
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-0353
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 49
sentence: 2
flesch: 21
cache: cache/Bolivia-0353.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-0353.txt
type: competitive
summary:
  Social participation, community participation, and the participation of the parents in the educational system are recognized and guaranteed by means of representative organizations at all levels of the State and in the nations and the rural native indigenous peoples. Their composition and attributes shall be established by the law.


id: Chad-0623
author: Chad
title: Chad-0623
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 17
sentence: 1
flesch: 30
cache: cache/Chad-0623.txt
txt: txt/Chad-0623.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  A consultative organ called the High Council of the Autonomous Collectivities and of Traditional Leadership is instituted.


id: Bolivia-1274
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1274
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 26
sentence: 1
flesch: 14
cache: cache/Bolivia-1274.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1274.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The decision to convert a municipality into a rural native indigenous autonomy shall be adopted by referendum, pursuant to the requisites and conditions established by law.


id: Colombia-1404
author: Colombia
title: Colombia-1404
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 75
sentence: 1
flesch: -5
cache: cache/Colombia-1404.txt
txt: txt/Colombia-1404.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  By means of a law approved by the majority of the members of each House, it shall be possible to limit the exercise of the rights of movement and residence, establish controls on the density of population, regulate the use of the land, and submit to special conditions the transfer of immovable property in order to protect the cultural identity of the native [Indian] communities and preserve the environment and natural resources of the archipelago.


id: Bolivia-0954
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-0954
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 22
sentence: 1
flesch: 34
cache: cache/Bolivia-0954.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-0954.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The nations and rural native indigenous peoples may elect their political representatives whenever required, in accordance with their own forms of election.


id: Bolivia-0176
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-0176
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 18
sentence: 1
flesch: 42
cache: cache/Bolivia-0176.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-0176.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The health system is unitary and includes traditional medicine of the nations and the rural native indigenous peoples.


id: Ecuador_2021-0135
author: Ecuador_2021
title: Ecuador_2021-0135
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 16
sentence: 1
flesch: 37
cache: cache/Ecuador_2021-0135.txt
txt: txt/Ecuador_2021-0135.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  Persons have the right to enjoy the benefits and applications of scientific progress and ancestral wisdom.


id: Bolivia-1790
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1790
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 31
sentence: 1
flesch: 25
cache: cache/Bolivia-1790.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1790.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The State shall regulate the management and sustainable administration of the water resources and the basins for irrigation, food security and basic services, respecting the uses and customs of the communities.


id: Bolivia-1478
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1478
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 30
sentence: 1
flesch: 24
cache: cache/Bolivia-1478.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1478.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Exercise of rural native indigenous jurisdiction for the application of justice and the resolution of conflict through their own norms and procedures in accordance with the Constitution and the law.


id: Bolivia-1852
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1852
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 66
sentence: 3
flesch: 8
cache: cache/Bolivia-1852.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1852.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The State recognizes, protects and guarantees communitarian or collective property, which includes rural native indigenous territory, native, intercultural communities and rural communities. Collective property is indivisible, may not be subject to prescription or attachment, is inalienable and irreversible, and it is not subject to agrarian property taxes.


id: Bolivia-1268
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1268
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 40
sentence: 1
flesch: 11
cache: cache/Bolivia-1268.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1268.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The indigenous autonomy, based on consolidated indigenous territories and those undergoing that process and once consolidated, shall be formed by the express will of the population through consultation, as the only necessary requisite, pursuant to their own norms and procedures.


id: Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo-0285
author: Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo
title: Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo-0285
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 28
sentence: 1
flesch: 33
cache: cache/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo-0285.txt
txt: txt/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo-0285.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  All national, provincial, local and customary authorities have the duty to safeguard the unity of the Republic and the integrity of its territory, under penalty of high treason.


id: Colombia-1930
author: Colombia
title: Colombia-1930
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 81
sentence: 1
flesch: -6
cache: cache/Colombia-1930.txt
txt: txt/Colombia-1930.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Within the two years following the entry into effect of the present Constitution, Congress shall issue, following a study by a special commission that the government shall create for that purpose, a law which shall take cognizance of the Black communities which have come to occupy uncultivated lands in the rural zones adjoining the rivers of the Pacific Basin, in accordance with their traditional cultivation practices and the right to collective property over the areas which the same law shall demarcate.


id: Bolivia-1472
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1472
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 26
sentence: 1
flesch: 21
cache: cache/Bolivia-1472.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1472.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  Definition and management of their own forms of economic, social, political, organizational and cultural development, in accord with their identity and the vision of each village.


id: Bolivia-0918
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-0918
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 16
sentence: 1
flesch: 0
cache: cache/Bolivia-0918.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-0918.txt
type: competitive
summary:
  The conflicts of authority between the rural native indigenous jurisdiction and ordinary and agro-environmental jurisdiction.


id: Angola-1222
author: Angola
title: Angola-1222
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 29
sentence: 1
flesch: 8
cache: cache/Angola-1222.txt
txt: txt/Angola-1222.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The forms of local government organisation shall include local authorities, the institutions of the traditional authorities and other specific forms of citizen participation, under the terms of the law.


id: Bolivia-0869
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-0869
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 41
sentence: 2
flesch: -5
cache: cache/Bolivia-0869.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-0869.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The law of Jurisdictional Demarcation shall determine the mechanisms of coordination and cooperation between rural native indigenous jurisdiction and ordinary jurisdiction and agro-environmental jurisdiction and all the recognized constitutional jurisdictions. The State shall promote and strengthen rural native indigenous justice.


id: Bolivia-1880
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1880
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 36
sentence: 2
flesch: 24
cache: cache/Bolivia-1880.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1880.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The rural native indigenous territory includes areas of production, areas of exploitation and conservation of natural resources, and spaces for social, spiritual and cultural reproduction. The law shall establish the procedure for recognition of these rights.


id: Bolivia-1261
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1261
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 35
sentence: 1
flesch: 14
cache: cache/Bolivia-1261.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1261.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The self-governance of the rural native indigenous autonomies is exercised according to their norms, institutions, authorities and procedures, in accordance with their authority and competences, and in harmony with the Constitution and the law.


id: Bolivia-1468
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1468
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 17
sentence: 1
flesch: 45
cache: cache/Bolivia-1468.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1468.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The rural native indigenous region shall assume the authority that may be transferred or delegated to it.


id: Chad-0614
author: Chad
title: Chad-0614
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 16
sentence: 1
flesch: 47
cache: cache/Chad-0614.txt
txt: txt/Chad-0614.txt
type: combative
summary:
  However, customs contrary to the public order or those that promote inequality between citizens are prohibited.


id: Bolivia-1135
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1135
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 15
sentence: 1
flesch: 22
cache: cache/Bolivia-1135.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1135.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The negotiation, signing and ratification of international relations shall be guided by the principles of:


id: Bolivia-0862
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-0862
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 18
sentence: 1
flesch: 0
cache: cache/Bolivia-0862.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-0862.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The rural native indigenous jurisdiction is exercised in the following areas of personal, material and territorial legal effect:


id: Bolivia-0865
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-0865
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 29
sentence: 1
flesch: 34
cache: cache/Bolivia-0865.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-0865.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  This jurisdiction applies to the relations and juridical acts that are carried out, or the effects of which are produced, within the jurisdiction of a rural native indigenous people.


id: Bolivia-0163
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-0163
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 36
sentence: 1
flesch: 31
cache: cache/Bolivia-0163.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-0163.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The nations and the rural native indigenous peoples that are in danger of extinction, in voluntary isolation and not in contact, shall be protected and respected with respect to their forms of individual and collective life.


id: Bolivia-0490
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-0490
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 32
sentence: 1
flesch: 31
cache: cache/Bolivia-0490.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-0490.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  During the legal process, the parties in conflict enjoy equal opportunities to exercise the faculties and rights that may help them, whether in an ordinary process or by rural native indigenous process.


id: Bolivia-1842
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1842
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 35
sentence: 1
flesch: 21
cache: cache/Bolivia-1842.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1842.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The State, in coordination with the rural native indigenous authorities and the inhabitants of the Amazonia, shall create a special, decentralized organ, with headquarters in the Amazonia, to promote its own activities in the region.


id: Bolivia-1217
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1217
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 58
sentence: 2
flesch: 11
cache: cache/Bolivia-1217.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1217.txt
type: competitive
summary:
  The law shall determine the general criteria for the election of members of the departmental assemblies, taking into account population, territorial, cultural identity and linguistic representation when there are rural native indigenous minorities, and parity and alternation of gender. The Statutes of Autonomy shall define its application in accordance with the specific reality and conditions of its jurisdiction.


id: Bolivia-0142
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-0142
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 26
sentence: 1
flesch: 47
cache: cache/Bolivia-0142.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-0142.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  In the framework of the unity of the State, and in accordance with this Constitution, the nations and rural native indigenous peoples enjoy the following rights:


id: Bolivia-0410
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-0410
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 35
sentence: 2
flesch: 44
cache: cache/Bolivia-0410.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-0410.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The world views, myths, oral history, dances, cultural practices, knowledge and traditional technologies are patrimony of the nations and rural native indigenous peoples. This patrimony forms part of the expression and identity of the State.


id: Chad-0625
author: Chad
title: Chad-0625
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 15
sentence: 1
flesch: 33
cache: cache/Chad-0625.txt
txt: txt/Chad-0625.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The High Council of the Autonomous Collectivities and of Traditional Leadership is a consultative assembly.


id: Bangladesh-0102
author: Bangladesh
title: Bangladesh-0102
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 24
sentence: 1
flesch: 62
cache: cache/Bangladesh-0102.txt
txt: txt/Bangladesh-0102.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The State shall take steps to protect and develop the unique local culture and tradition of the tribes, minor races, ethnic sects and communities.


id: Bolivia-1271
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1271
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 30
sentence: 1
flesch: -12
cache: cache/Bolivia-1271.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1271.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  To constitute an indigenous originary peasant autonomy extending to territories in one or more municipalities, statute shall determine the articulation, coordination and cooperation mechanisms for the exercise of its government.


id: Bolivia-0196
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-0196
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 42
sentence: 1
flesch: 9
cache: cache/Bolivia-0196.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-0196.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The promotion of traditional medicine shall include the registry of natural medicines and of their curative properties, as well as the protection of their knowledge as intellectual, historic, cultural property and as patrimony of the nations and the rural native indigenous peoples.


id: Bolivia-1672
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1672
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 37
sentence: 1
flesch: 13
cache: cache/Bolivia-1672.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1672.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The departmental and municipal resources, and those of the rural native indigenous autonomies, and the judicial and university resources, which are collected by dependent offices at the national level, shall not be centralized in the National Treasury.


id: Bolivia-0858
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-0858
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 28
sentence: 1
flesch: 18
cache: cache/Bolivia-0858.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-0858.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The nations and native indigenous rural peoples shall exercise their jurisdictional functions and competency through their authorities, and shall apply their own principles, cultural values, norms and procedures.


id: Bolivia-1198
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1198
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 62
sentence: 1
flesch: -47
cache: cache/Bolivia-1198.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1198.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The principles that govern territorial organization and the decentralized and autonomous territorial entities are: unity, voluntariness, solidarity, equity, the common good, self government, equality, complementariness, reciprocity, gender equity, subsidiarity, gradualness, coordination and institutional faithfulness, transparency, public participation and control, provision of economic resources and the pre-existence of the nations and rural native indigenous peoples, under the terms established in this Constitution.


id: Colombia-1503
author: Colombia
title: Colombia-1503
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 66
sentence: 2
flesch: 27
cache: cache/Colombia-1503.txt
txt: txt/Colombia-1503.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  In case that such territory should decide to constitute itself as a territorial entity, this shall be done in compliance with the requirements established by the first clause of this article. In the case of an indigenous [Indian] territory that may include the territory of two or more departments, its administration shall be implemented by indigenous councils in coordination with the governors of the respective departments.


id: Bolivia-0015
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-0015
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 62
sentence: 1
flesch: -10
cache: cache/Bolivia-0015.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-0015.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Given the pre-colonial existence of nations and rural native indigenous peoples and their ancestral control of their territories, their free determination, consisting of the right to autonomy, self-government, their culture, recognition of their institutions, and the consolidation of their territorial entities, is guaranteed within the framework of the unity of the State, in accordance with this Constitution and the law.


id: Bolivia-0359
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-0359
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 68
sentence: 3
flesch: 35
cache: cache/Bolivia-0359.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-0359.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  Mutual respect and coexistence among persons of diverse religions shall be promoted, without dogmatic imposition. There shall be no discrimination on the basis of religious choice with respect to the acceptance and permanence of students in these centers.


id: Bolivia-1237
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1237
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 21
sentence: 1
flesch: 48
cache: cache/Bolivia-1237.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1237.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The Municipal Council may draft the proposed Organic Charter, which shall be approved according to that set forth in this Constitution.


id: Bolivia-1280
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1280
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 42
sentence: 1
flesch: 27
cache: cache/Bolivia-1280.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1280.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The government of the rural native indigenous autonomies is exercised through their own norms and forms of organization, with the name that corresponds to each town, nation or community, as established in their statutes and subject to the Constitution and the law.


id: Bolivia-1822
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1822
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 37
sentence: 1
flesch: 20
cache: cache/Bolivia-1822.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1822.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  Wherever rural native indigenous protected areas and territories are recovered, shared management shall be undertaken, subject to the norms and procedures of the rural native indigenous nations and peoples, and respecting the goal of creating these areas.


id: Bolivia-0955
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-0955
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 40
sentence: 1
flesch: 28
cache: cache/Bolivia-0955.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-0955.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The Electoral Organ shall assure that the norms of those peoples and nations will be complied with strictly in the elections of authorities, representatives and candidates of the nations and rural native indigenous peoples, using their own norms and procedures.


id: Bolivia-1462
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1462
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 13
sentence: 1
flesch: 17
cache: cache/Bolivia-1462.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1462.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  Grains and sharecroppers, in coordination with the rural native indigenous villages, when appropriate.


id: Chad-0436
author: Chad
title: Chad-0436
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 16
sentence: 1
flesch: 42
cache: cache/Chad-0436.txt
txt: txt/Chad-0436.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  the procedure according to which customs are declared and harmonized with the principles of the Constitution;


id: Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo-1104
author: Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo
title: Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo-1104
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 26
sentence: 1
flesch: 56
cache: cache/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo-1104.txt
txt: txt/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo-1104.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  It is devolved conforming to local custom, provided that it is not contrary to the Constitution, to the law, to public order and to good morals.


id: Bolivia-1862
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1862
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 58
sentence: 2
flesch: 35
cache: cache/Bolivia-1862.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1862.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  Social purpose shall be understood to mean the sustainable exploitation of the land by peoples and rural native indigenous communities, as well as that carried out in small properties, and it constitutes the source of subsistence and welfare and socio-cultural development of its owners. The norms of the communities are recognized in the fulfillment of social purpose.


id: Ecuador_2021-0309
author: Ecuador_2021
title: Ecuador_2021-0309
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 66
sentence: 1
flesch: -12
cache: cache/Ecuador_2021-0309.txt
txt: txt/Ecuador_2021-0309.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  To uphold, protect and develop collective knowledge; their science, technologies and ancestral wisdom; the genetic resources that contain biological diversity and agricultural biodiversity; their medicine and traditional medical practices, with the inclusion of the right to restore, promote, and protect ritual and holy places, as well as plants, animals, minerals and ecosystems in their territories; and knowledge about the resources and properties of fauna and flora.


id: Ecuador_2021-0297
author: Ecuador_2021
title: Ecuador_2021-0297
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 29
sentence: 1
flesch: -6
cache: cache/Ecuador_2021-0297.txt
txt: txt/Ecuador_2021-0297.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Indigenous communes, communities, peoples and nations are recognized and guaranteed, in conformity with the Constitution and human rights agreements, conventions, declarations and other international instruments, the following collective rights:


id: Colombia-1088
author: Colombia
title: Colombia-1088
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 57
sentence: 2
flesch: 25
cache: cache/Colombia-1088.txt
txt: txt/Colombia-1088.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The authorities of the indigenous [Indian] peoples may exercise their jurisdictional functions within their territorial jurisdiction in accordance with their own laws and procedures as long as these are not contrary to the Constitution and the laws of the Republic. An Act shall establish the forms of coordination of this special jurisdiction with the national judicial system.


id: Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo-1062
author: Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo
title: Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo-1062
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 20
sentence: 1
flesch: 38
cache: cache/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo-1062.txt
txt: txt/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo-1062.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Without prejudice to the other provisions of this Constitution, the following matters are of the exclusive competence of the Provinces:


id: Bolivia-0950
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-0950
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 23
sentence: 1
flesch: 10
cache: cache/Bolivia-0950.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-0950.txt
type: competitive
summary:
  The organization and functioning of the organizations of the nations, rural native indigenous peoples, and citizen associations and political parties must be democratic.


id: Ecuador_2021-0324
author: Ecuador_2021
title: Ecuador_2021-0324
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 37
sentence: 1
flesch: 25
cache: cache/Ecuador_2021-0324.txt
txt: txt/Ecuador_2021-0324.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  To build up their identity, culture, traditions and rights, the collective rights of the Afro-Ecuadorian people are recognized, as set forth in the Constitution, the law, and human rights agreements, conventions, declarations and other international instruments.


id: Bolivia-1889
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1889
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 16
sentence: 1
flesch: 42
cache: cache/Bolivia-1889.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1889.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The importance and respect of the rural native indigenous communities in all dimensions of their life.


id: Colombia-1939
author: Colombia
title: Colombia-1939
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 39
sentence: 1
flesch: 4
cache: cache/Colombia-1939.txt
txt: txt/Colombia-1939.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Pending the issuance of the Act referred to in Article 329, the Government may prescribe the necessary fiscal regulations and other matters relating to the functioning of the indigenous [Indian] territories and their coordination with the other territorial entities.


id: Ecuador_2021-0925
author: Ecuador_2021
title: Ecuador_2021-0925
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 74
sentence: 2
flesch: 19
cache: cache/Ecuador_2021-0925.txt
txt: txt/Ecuador_2021-0925.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The authorities shall apply their own standards and procedures for the settlement of internal disputes, as long as they are not contrary to the Constitution and human rights enshrined in international instruments. The authorities of the indigenous communities, peoples, and nations shall perform jurisdictional duties, on the basis of their ancestral traditions and their own system of law, within their own territories, with a guarantee for the participation of, and decision-making by, women.


id: Bolivia-1263
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1263
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 29
sentence: 1
flesch: 2
cache: cache/Bolivia-1263.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1263.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The rural native indigenous autonomies are rural native indigenous territories and the municipalities and regions that adopt that character, pursuant to that established in the Constitution and the law.


id: Chad-0616
author: Chad
title: Chad-0616
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 22
sentence: 1
flesch: 26
cache: cache/Chad-0616.txt
txt: txt/Chad-0616.txt
type: competitive
summary:
  The customary and traditional rules governing the matrimonial regimes and inheritance may only be applicable with the consent of the concerned parties.


id: Bolivia-0908
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-0908
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 61
sentence: 2
flesch: 21
cache: cache/Bolivia-0908.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-0908.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  As the court of jurisdiction in the matters of pure law concerning the unconstitutionality of laws, Autonomous Statutes, Constitutional Charters, decrees and every type of ordinance and non-judicial resolution. If the case is of abstract character, only the President of the Republic, Senators, Deputies, Legislators and the maximum authorities of the autonomous territorial entities may present it to the court.


id: Angola-1259
author: Angola
title: Angola-1259
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 28
sentence: 1
flesch: 27
cache: cache/Angola-1259.txt
txt: txt/Angola-1259.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The state shall recognise the status, role and functions of the institutions of the traditional authorities founded in accordance with customary law which do not contradict the Constitution.


id: Bolivia-1844
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1844
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 38
sentence: 1
flesch: -18
cache: cache/Bolivia-1844.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1844.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The State shall implement special policies to benefit the rural native indigenous nations and peoples of the region in order to generate the necessary conditions for the reactivation, encouragement, industrialization, commercialization, protection and conservation of traditional extract products.


id: Bolivia-0807
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-0807
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 60
sentence: 3
flesch: 30
cache: cache/Bolivia-0807.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-0807.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  Ordinary jurisdiction is exercised by the Supreme Court of Justice, the departmental courts of justice, the sentencing courts and the judges; the agro-environmental jurisdiction is exercised by the Agro-Environmental Court and judges; and the rural native indigenous jurisdiction is exercised by their own authorities. There shall be specialized jurisdictions regulated by the law.


id: Bolivia-0867
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-0867
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 15
sentence: 1
flesch: 33
cache: cache/Bolivia-0867.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-0867.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  Each public authority or person shall obey the decisions of the rural native indigenous jurisdiction.


id: Ecuador_2021-1246
author: Ecuador_2021
title: Ecuador_2021-1246
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 17
sentence: 1
flesch: -4
cache: cache/Ecuador_2021-1246.txt
txt: txt/Ecuador_2021-1246.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  Autonomous metropolitan districts, the province of Galapagos, and indigenous and pluricultural territorial districts shall constitute special systems.


id: Bolivia-0863
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-0863
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 38
sentence: 1
flesch: 32
cache: cache/Bolivia-0863.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-0863.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  Members of the nation or rural native indigenous people are subject to this jurisdiction whether they act as plaintiffs or defendants, claimants or accusers, whether they are persons who are denounced or accused, or are appellants or respondents.


id: Bolivia-1235
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1235
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 43
sentence: 1
flesch: 3
cache: cache/Bolivia-1235.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1235.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The nations or rural native indigenous peoples in the municipalities, which do not constitute a rural native indigenous autonomy, may elect their representatives to the Municipal Council directly, pursuant to their own norms and procedures and in accordance with the Organic Municipal Charter.


id: East_Timor-0025
author: East_Timor
title: East_Timor-0025
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 21
sentence: 1
flesch: 36
cache: cache/East_Timor-0025.txt
txt: txt/East_Timor-0025.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The State recognizes customary laws of East Timor, subject to the Constitution and to any legislation dealing specifically with customary law.


id: Chad-0626
author: Chad
title: Chad-0626
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 29
sentence: 2
flesch: 14
cache: cache/Chad-0626.txt
txt: txt/Chad-0626.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  It gives its substantiated opinion on the policy of decentralization, on territorial planning, and on questions relative to traditional Leadership. It participates in the non-jurisdictional settlement of disputes.


id: Bolivia-1273
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1273
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 33
sentence: 1
flesch: 24
cache: cache/Bolivia-1273.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1273.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The decision to form a rural native indigenous autonomy shall be adopted pursuant to the norms and procedures for consultations, according to the requisites and conditions established in the Constitution and the law.


id: Ecuador_2021-1420
author: Ecuador_2021
title: Ecuador_2021-1420
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 28
sentence: 1
flesch: 9
cache: cache/Ecuador_2021-1420.txt
txt: txt/Ecuador_2021-1420.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  To promote and bolster science and technology, the arts, ancestral wisdom and, in general, activities resulting from the creative initiative of communities, associations, cooperatives and the private sector.


id: Bolivia-1205
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1205
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 24
sentence: 1
flesch: 13
cache: cache/Bolivia-1205.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1205.txt
type: competitive
summary:
  The law shall regulate the formation of the communities among municipalities, regions and rural native indigenous territories for the purpose of achieving their objectives.


id: Bolivia-0197
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-0197
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 16
sentence: 1
flesch: 47
cache: cache/Bolivia-0197.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-0197.txt
type: competitive
summary:
  The law shall regulate the practice of traditional medicine and shall guarantee the quality of service.


id: Bolivia-1258
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1258
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 42
sentence: 1
flesch: -4
cache: cache/Bolivia-1258.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1258.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  Rural native indigenous autonomy consists in self-government as an exercise of free determination of the nations and rural native indigenous peoples, the population of which shares territory, culture, history, languages, and their own juridical, political, social and economic organization or institutions.


id: Colombia-1505
author: Colombia
title: Colombia-1505
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 35
sentence: 1
flesch: 23
cache: cache/Colombia-1505.txt
txt: txt/Colombia-1505.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  In accordance with the Constitution and the statutes, the indigenous territories shall be governed by the councils formed and regulated according to the uses and customs of their communities and shall exercise the following functions:


id: Ecuador_2021-1767
author: Ecuador_2021
title: Ecuador_2021-1767
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 44
sentence: 1
flesch: 16
cache: cache/Ecuador_2021-1767.txt
txt: txt/Ecuador_2021-1767.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The system shall guarantee, through the institutions that comprise it, the promotion of family and community health, prevention and integral care, on the basis of primary healthcare; it shall articulate various levels of care; and it shall promote complementariness with ancestral and alternative medicines.


id: Bolivia-1719
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1719
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 86
sentence: 3
flesch: 37
cache: cache/Bolivia-1719.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1719.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The exploitation of natural resources in a determined territory shall be subject to a process of consultation with the affected population, called by the State, which shall be free, prior in time and informed. In the nations and rural native indigenous peoples, the consultation will be carried out with respect given to their own norms and procedures.


id: Bolivia-0859
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-0859
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 23
sentence: 1
flesch: 32
cache: cache/Bolivia-0859.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-0859.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The rural native indigenous jurisdiction respects the right to life, the right to defense and other rights and guarantees established in this Constitution.


id: Bolivia-0373
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-0373
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 42
sentence: 1
flesch: 5
cache: cache/Bolivia-0373.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-0373.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  Higher education develops processes of professional training for the generation and dissemination of knowledge aimed at the full development of society, for which purpose the universal and collective knowledge of the nations and rural native indigenous peoples shall be taken into account.


id: Bolivia-1421
author: Bolivia
title: Bolivia-1421
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 14
sentence: 1
flesch: 11
cache: cache/Bolivia-1421.txt
txt: txt/Bolivia-1421.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The following are the exclusive authority of the autonomous municipal governments, within their jurisdiction:


id: Ecuador_2021-1841
author: Ecuador_2021
title: Ecuador_2021-1841
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 21
sentence: 1
flesch: 24
cache: cache/Ecuador_2021-1841.txt
txt: txt/Ecuador_2021-1841.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  Languages, forms of expression, oral tradition and diverse cultural manifestations and creations, including those of a ritual, festive or productive nature.


id: Ecuador_2021-1876
author: Ecuador_2021
title: Ecuador_2021-1876
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 54
sentence: 1
flesch: -20
cache: cache/Ecuador_2021-1876.txt
txt: txt/Ecuador_2021-1876.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The system shall be comprised of programs, policies, resources, actions and shall incorporate State institutions, universities and polytechnic schools, public and private research institutes, public and private enterprise, nongovernmental organizations and natural persons or legal entities, to the extent that they undertake activities of research, technological development, innovation and those linked to ancestral wisdom.


id: Ecuador_2021-0298
author: Ecuador_2021
title: Ecuador_2021-0298
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 18
sentence: 1
flesch: 28
cache: cache/Ecuador_2021-0298.txt
txt: txt/Ecuador_2021-0298.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  To freely uphold, develop and strengthen their identity, feeling of belonging, ancestral traditions and forms of social organization.


id: Fiji_2013-0004
author: Fiji_2013
title: Fiji_2013-0004
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 24
sentence: 1
flesch: 34
cache: cache/Fiji_2013-0004.txt
txt: txt/Fiji_2013-0004.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  RECOGNISING the indigenous people or the Rotuman from the island of Rotuma, their ownership of Rotuman lands, their unique culture, customs, traditions and language;


id: Ethiopia-0145
author: Ethiopia
title: Ethiopia-0145
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 26
sentence: 1
flesch: 37
cache: cache/Ethiopia-0145.txt
txt: txt/Ethiopia-0145.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  In accordance with provisions to be specified by law, a law giving recognition to marriage concluded under systems of religious or customary laws may be enacted.


id: Fiji_2013-0353
author: Fiji_2013
title: Fiji_2013-0353
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 41
sentence: 1
flesch: 41
cache: cache/Fiji_2013-0353.txt
txt: txt/Fiji_2013-0353.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Any Rotuman land acquired by the State for a public purpose after the commencement of this Constitution under section 27 or under any written law shall revert to the customary owners if the land is no longer required by the State.


id: Fiji_2013-0350
author: Fiji_2013
title: Fiji_2013-0350
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 39
sentence: 1
flesch: 45
cache: cache/Fiji_2013-0350.txt
txt: txt/Fiji_2013-0350.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The ownership of all iTaukei land shall remain with the customary owners of that land and iTaukei land shall not be permanently alienated, whether by sale, grant, transfer or exchange, except to the State in accordance with section 27.


id: Ecuador_2021-1886
author: Ecuador_2021
title: Ecuador_2021-1886
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 57
sentence: 3
flesch: 18
cache: cache/Ecuador_2021-1886.txt
txt: txt/Ecuador_2021-1886.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The State shall allocate the resources needed for scientific research, technological development, innovation, scientific training, restoration and development of ancestral wisdom, and the dissemination of knowledge. A percentage of these resources shall be earmarked for funding projects by means of competitive finds.


id: Ethiopia-0471
author: Ethiopia
title: Ethiopia-0471
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 58
sentence: 2
flesch: 28
cache: cache/Ethiopia-0471.txt
txt: txt/Ethiopia-0471.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Religious and customary courts that had state recognition and functioned prior to the adoption of the Constitution shall be organized on the basis of recognition accorded to them by this Constitution. Pursuant to sub-Article 5 of Article 34 the House of Peoples' Representatives and State Councils can establish or give official recognition to religious and customary courts.


id: Gambia_2018-0146
author: Gambia_2018
title: Gambia_2018-0146
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 50
sentence: 1
flesch: 8
cache: cache/Gambia_2018-0146.txt
txt: txt/Gambia_2018-0146.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  where a compulsory acquisition of land by or on behalf of the Government involves the displacement of any inhabitant who occupy the land under customary law, the Government shall resettle the displaced inhabitants on suitable alternative land with due regard to their economic well-being and social and cultural values.


id: Gambia_2018-0365
author: Gambia_2018
title: Gambia_2018-0365
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 17
sentence: 1
flesch: 25
cache: cache/Gambia_2018-0365.txt
txt: txt/Gambia_2018-0365.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The Minister shall, in making an appointment under subsection (1), take into account traditional lines of inheritance.


id: Fiji_2013-0366
author: Fiji_2013
title: Fiji_2013-0366
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 78
sentence: 1
flesch: 10
cache: cache/Fiji_2013-0366.txt
txt: txt/Fiji_2013-0366.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  All minerals in or under any land or water, are owned by the State, provided however, that the owners of any particular land (whether customary or freehold), or of any particular registered customary fishing rights shall be entitled to receive a fair share of royalties or other money paid to the State in respect of the grant by the State of rights to extract minerals from that land or the seabed in the area of those fishing rights.


id: Ghana-0274
author: Ghana
title: Ghana-0274
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 24
sentence: 1
flesch: 30
cache: cache/Ghana-0274.txt
txt: txt/Ghana-0274.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Every person is entitled to enjoy, practice, profess, maintain and promote any culture, language, tradition or religion subject to the provisions of this Constitution.


id: Ecuador_2021-0306
author: Ecuador_2021
title: Ecuador_2021-0306
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 28
sentence: 1
flesch: 15
cache: cache/Ecuador_2021-0306.txt
txt: txt/Ecuador_2021-0306.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  To keep and develop their own forms of peaceful coexistence and social organization and creating and exercising authority, in their legally recognized territories and ancestrally owned community lands.


id: Ghana-1842
author: Ghana
title: Ghana-1842
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 23
sentence: 1
flesch: 54
cache: cache/Ghana-1842.txt
txt: txt/Ghana-1842.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  confers on any person or authority the right to accord or withdraw recognition to or from a chief for any purpose whatsoever, or


id: Ghana-1829
author: Ghana
title: Ghana-1829
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 38
sentence: 1
flesch: 16
cache: cache/Ghana-1829.txt
txt: txt/Ghana-1829.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The Lands Commission and the Administrator of Stool lands shall co-ordinate with all relevant public agencies and traditional authorities and stools in preparing a policy framework for the rational and productive development and management of stool lands.


id: Ghana-1845
author: Ghana
title: Ghana-1845
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 51
sentence: 1
flesch: 10
cache: cache/Ghana-1845.txt
txt: txt/Ghana-1845.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  the determination, in accordance with the appropriate customary law and usage, by a Traditional Council, a Regional House of Chiefs or the National House of Chiefs or a Chieftaincy Committee of any of them, of the validity of the nomination, election, selection, installation or deposition of a person as a chief;


id: Ghana-0394
author: Ghana
title: Ghana-0394
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 48
sentence: 1
flesch: 18
cache: cache/Ghana-0394.txt
txt: txt/Ghana-0394.txt
type: combative
summary:
  The State shall ensure that appropriate customary and cultural values are adapted and developed as an integral part of the growing needs of the society as a whole; and in particular that traditional practices which are injurious to the health and well-being of the person are abolished.


id: Ghana-1873
author: Ghana
title: Ghana-1873
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 27
sentence: 2
flesch: 39
cache: cache/Ghana-1873.txt
txt: txt/Ghana-1873.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  hear and determine appeals from the traditional councils within the region in respect of the nomination, election, selection, installation or deposition of a person as a chief;


id: Ecuador_2021-0328
author: Ecuador_2021
title: Ecuador_2021-0328
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 42
sentence: 3
flesch: 23
cache: cache/Ecuador_2021-0328.txt
txt: txt/Ecuador_2021-0328.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Communities (comunas) that have collective land ownership are recognized as an ancestral form of territorial organization. Ancestral, indigenous, Afro-Ecuadorian and coastal back-country (montubios) peoples can establish territorial districts for the preservation of their culture.


id: Ghana-1853
author: Ghana
title: Ghana-1853
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 24
sentence: 1
flesch: 30
cache: cache/Ghana-1853.txt
txt: txt/Ghana-1853.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  advise any person or authority charged with any responsibility under this Constitution or any other law for any matter relating to or affecting chieftaincy;


id: Ecuador_2021-0320
author: Ecuador_2021
title: Ecuador_2021-0320
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 38
sentence: 1
flesch: 30
cache: cache/Ecuador_2021-0320.txt
txt: txt/Ecuador_2021-0320.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  That the dignity and diversity of their cultures, traditions, histories, and ambitions be reflected in public education and in the media; the creation of their own media in their languages and access to the others without any discrimination.


id: Ghana-2049
author: Ghana
title: Ghana-2049
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 23
sentence: 1
flesch: 54
cache: cache/Ghana-2049.txt
txt: txt/Ghana-2049.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  paramount chief means a person who has been nominated, elected and installed as a paramount chief in accordance with customary law and usage;


id: India_2016-2520
author: India_2016
title: India_2016-2520
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 18
sentence: 2
flesch: 56
cache: cache/India_2016-2520.txt
txt: txt/India_2016-2520.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  shall apply to the State of Nagaland unless the Legislative Assembly of Nagaland by a resolution so decides;


id: India_2016-2231
author: India_2016
title: India_2016-2231
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 69
sentence: 1
flesch: 11
cache: cache/India_2016-2231.txt
txt: txt/India_2016-2231.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The President may with respect to any State or Union territory, and where it is a State, after consultation with the Governor thereof, by public notification, specify the tribes or tribal communities or parts of or groups within tribes or tribal communities which shall for the purposes of this Constitution be deemed to be Scheduled Tribes in relation to that State or Union territory, as the case may be.


id: Kenya_2010-0522
author: Kenya_2010
title: Kenya_2010-0522
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 26
sentence: 1
flesch: 50
cache: cache/Kenya_2010-0522.txt
txt: txt/Kenya_2010-0522.txt
type: competitive
summary:
  Land in Kenya shall be held, used and managed in a manner that is equitable, efficient, productive and sustainable, and in accordance with the following principles-


id: Ecuador_2021-0926
author: Ecuador_2021
title: Ecuador_2021-0926
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 43
sentence: 3
flesch: 13
cache: cache/Ecuador_2021-0926.txt
txt: txt/Ecuador_2021-0926.txt
type: competitive
summary:
  The law shall establish the mechanisms for coordination and cooperation between indigenous jurisdiction and regular jurisdiction. The State shall guarantee that the decisions of indigenous jurisdiction are observed by public institutions and authorities.


id: Kenya_2010-2556
author: Kenya_2010
title: Kenya_2010-2556
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 21
sentence: 1
flesch: 44
cache: cache/Kenya_2010-2556.txt
txt: txt/Kenya_2010-2556.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  an indigenous community that has retained and maintained a traditional lifestyle and livelihood based on a hunter or gatherer economy; or


id: Liberia_1986-0083
author: Liberia_1986
title: Liberia_1986-0083
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 40
sentence: 1
flesch: 28
cache: cache/Liberia_1986-0083.txt
txt: txt/Liberia_1986-0083.txt
type: competitive
summary:
  The Legislature shall enact laws to govern the devolution of estates and establish rights of inheritance and descent for spouses of both statutory and customary marriages so as to give adequate protection to surviving spouses and children of such marriages.


id: Malawi-0116
author: Malawi
title: Malawi-0116
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 20
sentence: 1
flesch: 46
cache: cache/Malawi-0116.txt
txt: txt/Malawi-0116.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Subsections (3) and (4) shall apply to all marriages at law, custom and marriages by repute or by permanent cohabitation.


id: Malawi-0699
author: Malawi
title: Malawi-0699
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 32
sentence: 1
flesch: 52
cache: cache/Malawi-0699.txt
txt: txt/Malawi-0699.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Provided that the jurisdiction of such courts shall be limited exclusively to civil cases at customary law and such minor common law and statutory offences as prescribed by an Act of Parliament.


id: Malawi-1252
author: Malawi
title: Malawi-1252
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 48
sentence: 1
flesch: 32
cache: cache/Malawi-1252.txt
txt: txt/Malawi-1252.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Except in so far as they are inconsistent with this Constitution, all Acts of Parliament, common law and customary law in force on the appointed day shall continue to have force of law, as if they had been made in accordance with and in pursuance of this Constitution:


id: Malawi-1264
author: Malawi
title: Malawi-1264
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 38
sentence: 1
flesch: 39
cache: cache/Malawi-1264.txt
txt: txt/Malawi-1264.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Appeals against the decisions of a District Traditional Appeal Court or a District Traditional Court shall lie to the High Court which, in hearing such appeals, may sit with assessors appointed in accordance with an Act of Parliament.


id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0123
author: Marshall_Islands_1995
title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0123
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 102
sentence: 1
flesch: -15
cache: cache/Marshall_Islands_1995-0123.txt
txt: txt/Marshall_Islands_1995-0123.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  If, in the case of any district, there is for any reason no person eligible to be a member of the Council of Iroij in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3) of this Section, the Council of Iroij shall as soon as practicable proceed, by resolution, to appoint as a member of the Council a person who, in the opinion of the Council, having regard to the customary law and traditional practice, is qualified by reason of his family ties to a person who, but for that reason, would have been eligible to be a member of the Council from that district.


id: Ecuador_2021-1288
author: Ecuador_2021
title: Ecuador_2021-1288
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 43
sentence: 2
flesch: 7
cache: cache/Ecuador_2021-1288.txt
txt: txt/Ecuador_2021-1288.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  These shall have jurisdiction over the respective autonomous territorial government and shall be governed by the principles of interculturalism and plurinationalism, and in accordance with collective rights. Within the framework of political- administrative organization, indigenous or Afro-Ecuadorian territorial districts may be formed.


id: Ecuador_2021-1881
author: Ecuador_2021
title: Ecuador_2021-1881
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 33
sentence: 2
flesch: 46
cache: cache/Ecuador_2021-1881.txt
txt: txt/Ecuador_2021-1881.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  To promote the generation and production of knowledge, to foster scientific and technological research, and to upgrade ancestral wisdom to thus contribute to the achievement of the good way of living (sumak kawsay) .


id: Ghana-0106
author: Ghana
title: Ghana-0106
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 41
sentence: 1
flesch: 43
cache: cache/Ghana-0106.txt
txt: txt/Ghana-0106.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The common law of Ghana shall comprise the rules of law generally known as the common law, the rules generally known as the doctrines of equity and the rules of customary law including those determined by the Superior Court of Judicature.


id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0136
author: Marshall_Islands_1995
title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0136
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 72
sentence: 1
flesch: 4
cache: cache/Marshall_Islands_1995-0136.txt
txt: txt/Marshall_Islands_1995-0136.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The Council of Iroij may, within 7 days after the date of such transmittal, adopt a resolution expressing its opinion that a Bill so transmitted to the Council affects the customary law or a traditional practice, or land tenure, or a related matter, and requesting the Nitijela reconsider the Bill, or it may sooner, by writing signed by the Chairman of the Council, record its decision not to adopt any such resolution.


id: Ecuador_2021-2140
author: Ecuador_2021
title: Ecuador_2021-2140
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 46
sentence: 1
flesch: 13
cache: cache/Ecuador_2021-2140.txt
txt: txt/Ecuador_2021-2140.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The national councils for children and adolescents, persons with disabilities, women, indigenous peoples and nations, Afro-Ecuadorians and coastal back-country people (montubios) shall establish their own national councils for equality, for which purposes they shall adjust their structure and duties in line with the Constitution.


id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0218
author: Marshall_Islands_1995
title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0218
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 64
sentence: 1
flesch: -2
cache: cache/Marshall_Islands_1995-0218.txt
txt: txt/Marshall_Islands_1995-0218.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  Any such amendment of paragraph (1) of this Section shall, so far as practicable, be made in accordance with the principle that every member of the Nitijela should represent approximately the same number of voters; but account shall also be taken of geographical features, community interests, the boundaries of existing administrative and recognized traditional areas, means of communication and density and mobility of population.


id: Ecuador_2021-1441
author: Ecuador_2021
title: Ecuador_2021-1441
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 22
sentence: 1
flesch: 22
cache: cache/Ecuador_2021-1441.txt
txt: txt/Ecuador_2021-1441.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  Promoting the conservation and recovery of agricultural biodiversity and related ancestral wisdom, along with the use, conservation and free exchange of seeds.


id: Ecuador_2021-1772
author: Ecuador_2021
title: Ecuador_2021-1772
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 53
sentence: 2
flesch: 33
cache: cache/Ecuador_2021-1772.txt
txt: txt/Ecuador_2021-1772.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  Healthcare services shall be safe, of a high quality, and humane and they shall guarantee informed consent, access to information, and confidentiality of the information of patients. Healthcare as a public service shall be provided through state, private, autonomous, and community institutions, as well as those that practice alternative and complementary ancestral medicine.


id: Ecuador_2021-1871
author: Ecuador_2021
title: Ecuador_2021-1871
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 31
sentence: 1
flesch: 28
cache: cache/Ecuador_2021-1871.txt
txt: txt/Ecuador_2021-1871.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The national system of science, technology, innovation and ancestral wisdom, in the framework of respect for the environment, nature, life, cultures and sovereignty, shall have as its end purpose the following:


id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0431
author: Marshall_Islands_1995
title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0431
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 39
sentence: 1
flesch: 43
cache: cache/Marshall_Islands_1995-0431.txt
txt: txt/Marshall_Islands_1995-0431.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The size, membership and procedures of the Traditional Rights Court shall be consistent with paragraph (1) of this Section, and shall be determined by the High Court unless and until the Nitijela makes provision for those matters by Act.


id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0434
author: Marshall_Islands_1995
title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0434
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 54
sentence: 1
flesch: 11
cache: cache/Marshall_Islands_1995-0434.txt
txt: txt/Marshall_Islands_1995-0434.txt
type: competitive
summary:
  When a question has been certified to the Traditional Rights Court for its determination under paragraph (4), its resolution of the question shall be given substantial weight in the certifying court's disposition of the legal controversy before it; but shall not be deemed binding unless the certifying court concludes that justice so requires.


id: Fiji_2013-0354
author: Fiji_2013
title: Fiji_2013-0354
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 39
sentence: 1
flesch: 45
cache: cache/Fiji_2013-0354.txt
txt: txt/Fiji_2013-0354.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The ownership of all Banaban land shall remain with the customary owners of that land and Banaban land shall not be permanently alienated, whether by sale, grant, transfer or exchange, except to the State in accordance with section 27.


id: Ethiopia-0146
author: Ethiopia
title: Ethiopia-0146
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 37
sentence: 2
flesch: 41
cache: cache/Ethiopia-0146.txt
txt: txt/Ethiopia-0146.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  This Constitution shall not preclude the adjudication of disputes relating to personal and family laws in accordance with religious or customary laws, with the consent of the parties to the dispute. Particulars shall be determined by law.


id: Gambia_2018-0216
author: Gambia_2018
title: Gambia_2018-0216
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 52
sentence: 1
flesch: 22
cache: cache/Gambia_2018-0216.txt
txt: txt/Gambia_2018-0216.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Every person shall be entitled to enjoy, practice, profess, maintain and promote any culture, language, tradition or religion subject to the terms of this Constitution and to the condition that the rights protected by this section do not impinge on the rights and freedoms of others or the national interest, especially unity.


id: Fiji_2013-0351
author: Fiji_2013
title: Fiji_2013-0351
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 41
sentence: 1
flesch: 45
cache: cache/Fiji_2013-0351.txt
txt: txt/Fiji_2013-0351.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Any iTaukei land acquired by the State for a public purpose after the commencement of this Constitution under section 27 or under any written law shall revert to the customary owners if the land is no longer required by the State.


id: Fiji_2013-0005
author: Fiji_2013
title: Fiji_2013-0005
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 21
sentence: 1
flesch: 32
cache: cache/Fiji_2013-0005.txt
txt: txt/Fiji_2013-0005.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  RECOGNISING the descendants of the indentured labourers from British India and the Pacific Islands, their culture, customs, traditions and language; and


id: Ecuador_2021-0452
author: Ecuador_2021
title: Ecuador_2021-0452
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 31
sentence: 2
flesch: 81
cache: cache/Ecuador_2021-0452.txt
txt: txt/Ecuador_2021-0452.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  For this purpose, the cases ruled by the indigenous legal system must also be taken into account. No one can be judged more than once for the same case and offense.


id: Ghana-2180
author: Ghana
title: Ghana-2180
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 47
sentence: 2
flesch: 31
cache: cache/Ghana-2180.txt
txt: txt/Ghana-2180.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  coming into force of this Constitution shall, on the coming into force of this Constitution, continue in existence subject to this Constitution. The National House of Chiefs, the Regional Houses of Chiefs, the Traditional Councils and all Judicial Committees of those bodies in existence immediately before the!


id: Ethiopia-0550
author: Ethiopia
title: Ethiopia-0550
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 38
sentence: 1
flesch: 32
cache: cache/Ethiopia-0550.txt
txt: txt/Ethiopia-0550.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Government shall have the duty to support, on the basis of equality, the growth and enrichment of cultures and traditions that are compatible with fundamental rights, human dignity, democratic norms and ideals, and the provisions of the Constitution.


id: Ghana-1816
author: Ghana
title: Ghana-1816
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 30
sentence: 1
flesch: 63
cache: cache/Ghana-1816.txt
txt: txt/Ghana-1816.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  All stool lands in Ghana shall vest in the appropriate stool on behalf of, and in trust for the subjects of the stool in accordance with customary law and usage.


id: Ecuador_2021-0321
author: Ecuador_2021
title: Ecuador_2021-0321
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 73
sentence: 3
flesch: 41
cache: cache/Ecuador_2021-0321.txt
txt: txt/Ecuador_2021-0321.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The territories of the peoples living in voluntary isolation are an irreducible and intangible ancestral possession and all forms of extractive activities shall be forbidden there. The State shall adopt measures to guarantee their lives, enforce respect for self-determination and the will to remain in isolation and to ensure observance of their rights.


id: India_2016-2232
author: India_2016
title: India_2016-2232
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 57
sentence: 1
flesch: 19
cache: cache/India_2016-2232.txt
txt: txt/India_2016-2232.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Parliament may by law include in or exclude from the list of Scheduled Tribes specified in a notification issued under clause (1) any tribe or tribal community or part of or group within any tribe or tribal community, but save as aforesaid a notification issued under the said clause shall not be varied by any subsequent notification.


id: Ecuador_2021-1008
author: Ecuador_2021
title: Ecuador_2021-1008
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 61
sentence: 2
flesch: 48
cache: cache/Ecuador_2021-1008.txt
txt: txt/Ecuador_2021-1008.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  Justices of the peace shall settle matters in a framework of equity and shall have the exclusive and mandatory competence to hear those individual, community, and district conflicts and infringements that are brought to their jurisdiction, in conformity with the law. In no case can they order the arrest and imprisonment of a person nor can they prevail over indigenous justice.


id: Ghana-1846
author: Ghana
title: Ghana-1846
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 44
sentence: 1
flesch: 27
cache: cache/Ghana-1846.txt
txt: txt/Ghana-1846.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  a Traditional Council or a Regional House of Chiefs or the National House of Chiefs to establish and operate a procedure for the registration of chiefs and the public notification in the Gazette or otherwise of the status of persons as chiefs in Ghana.


id: Ghana-1840
author: Ghana
title: Ghana-1840
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 19
sentence: 1
flesch: 27
cache: cache/Ghana-1840.txt
txt: txt/Ghana-1840.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The institution of chieftaincy, together with its traditional councils as established by customary law and usage is hereby guaranteed.


id: Ghana-0275
author: Ghana
title: Ghana-0275
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 20
sentence: 1
flesch: 34
cache: cache/Ghana-0275.txt
txt: txt/Ghana-0275.txt
type: combative
summary:
  All customary practices which dehumanise or are injurious to the physical and mental well-being of a person are prohibited.


id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0171
author: Marshall_Islands_1995
title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0171
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 89
sentence: 1
flesch: -6
cache: cache/Marshall_Islands_1995-0171.txt
txt: txt/Marshall_Islands_1995-0171.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  If, at any meeting of the Council of Iroij, or of any committee thereof or of any joint committee or joint conference, any member is absent, and is not represented by a deputy appointed by him, or the seat of any member is vacant, the Council of Iroij may, by resolution, appoint a person who, in the opinion of the Council, having regard to the customary law and any traditional practice, is qualified by reason of his family ties to that member to be his deputy at that meeting.


id: Ecuador_2021-1289
author: Ecuador_2021
title: Ecuador_2021-1289
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 76
sentence: 3
flesch: 35
cache: cache/Ecuador_2021-1289.txt
txt: txt/Ecuador_2021-1289.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The law shall set forth the rules for the structure, operation and competences of such districts. Parishes, cantons and provinces comprised in their majority of indigenous, Afro-Ecuadorian, coastal back- country (montubio) or ancestral communities, peoples or nations may take up this special administration system following a referendum passed by at least two thirds of the valid votes.


id: Ghana-1876
author: Ghana
title: Ghana-1876
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 20
sentence: 1
flesch: 51
cache: cache/Ghana-1876.txt
txt: txt/Ghana-1876.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  undertake the compilation of the customary laws and lines of succession applicable to each stool or skin in the region.


id: Ghana-1854
author: Ghana
title: Ghana-1854
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 41
sentence: 2
flesch: 41
cache: cache/Ghana-1854.txt
txt: txt/Ghana-1854.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  undertake the progressive study, interpretation and codification of customary law with a view to evolving, in appropriate cases, a unified system of rules of customary law, and compiling the customary laws and lines of succession applicable to each stool or skin;


id: India_2016-2624
author: India_2016
title: India_2016-2624
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 21
sentence: 2
flesch: 71
cache: cache/India_2016-2624.txt
txt: txt/India_2016-2624.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  shall apply to the State of Mizoram unless the Legislative Assembly of the State of Mizoram by a resolution so decides:


id: Kenya_2010-0615
author: Kenya_2010
title: Kenya_2010-0615
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 18
sentence: 2
flesch: 33
cache: cache/Kenya_2010-0615.txt
txt: txt/Kenya_2010-0615.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  protect and enhance intellectual property in, and indigenous knowledge of, biodiversity and the genetic resources of the communities;


id: Kenya_2010-0528
author: Kenya_2010
title: Kenya_2010-0528
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 17
sentence: 1
flesch: 50
cache: cache/Kenya_2010-0528.txt
txt: txt/Kenya_2010-0528.txt
type: competitive
summary:
  elimination of gender discrimination in law, customs and practices related to land and property in land; and


id: Kyrgyz_Republic-0216
author: Kyrgyz_Republic
title: Kyrgyz_Republic-0216
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 23
sentence: 1
flesch: 65
cache: cache/Kyrgyz_Republic-0216.txt
txt: txt/Kyrgyz_Republic-0216.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  In the Kyrgyz Republic, folk customs and traditions which do not infringe upon human rights and freedoms shall be supported by the State.


id: Ecuador_2021-1779
author: Ecuador_2021
title: Ecuador_2021-1779
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 19
sentence: 1
flesch: 13
cache: cache/Ecuador_2021-1779.txt
txt: txt/Ecuador_2021-1779.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  Guaranteeing ancestral and alternative health practices by recognizing, respecting and promoting the use of their knowledge, medicines and instruments.


id: Ecuador_2021-1607
author: Ecuador_2021
title: Ecuador_2021-1607
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 45
sentence: 3
flesch: 24
cache: cache/Ecuador_2021-1607.txt
txt: txt/Ecuador_2021-1607.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The appropriation of genetic resources contained in biological diversity and agricultural biodiversity is likewise forbidden Any form of appropriation of collective knowledge, in the fields of science, technology and ancestral wisdom, is forbidden.


id: Malawi-0140
author: Malawi
title: Malawi-0140
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 35
sentence: 1
flesch: 31
cache: cache/Malawi-0140.txt
txt: txt/Malawi-0140.txt
type: combative
summary:
  Any law that discriminates against women on the basis of gender or marital status shall be invalid and legislation shall be passed to eliminate customs and practices that discriminate against women, particularly practices such as—


id: Liberia_1986-0212
author: Liberia_1986
title: Liberia_1986-0212
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 90
sentence: 4
flesch: 47
cache: cache/Liberia_1986-0212.txt
txt: txt/Liberia_1986-0212.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The Judicial Power of the Republic shall be vested in a Supreme Court and such subordinate courts as the legislature may from time to time establish. Nothing in this Article shall prohibit administrative consideration of the Justiciable matter prior to review by a court of competent jurisdiction.


id: Malawi-1261
author: Malawi
title: Malawi-1261
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 96
sentence: 1
flesch: -25
cache: cache/Malawi-1261.txt
txt: txt/Malawi-1261.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  All legal actions which, at the commencement of this Constitution, are pending or being undertaken before any court other than before the Supreme Court of Appeal, the High Court, a Magistrate Court, a District Traditional Appeal Court, District Traditional Court, a Grade A Traditional Court, or a Grade B Traditional Court shall be commenced or continued before the High Court of Malawi or before such Magistrate’s court or District Traditional Appeal Court or District Traditional Court or Grade A Traditional Court or Grade B Traditional Court as the Registrar of the High Court shall direct.


id: Fiji_2013-0006
author: Fiji_2013
title: Fiji_2013-0006
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 16
sentence: 1
flesch: 42
cache: cache/Fiji_2013-0006.txt
txt: txt/Fiji_2013-0006.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  RECOGNISING the descendants of the settlers and immigrants to Fiji, their culture, customs, traditions and language,


id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0062
author: Marshall_Islands_1995
title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0062
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 32
sentence: 1
flesch: 50
cache: cache/Marshall_Islands_1995-0062.txt
txt: txt/Marshall_Islands_1995-0062.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  In determining whether compensation for land rights is just, the High Court shall refer the matter to the Traditional Rights Court and shall give substantial weight to the opinion of the latter.


id: Fiji_2013-0355
author: Fiji_2013
title: Fiji_2013-0355
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 41
sentence: 1
flesch: 45
cache: cache/Fiji_2013-0355.txt
txt: txt/Fiji_2013-0355.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Any Banaban land acquired by the State for a public purpose after the commencement of this Constitution under section 27 or under any written law shall revert to the customary owners if the land is no longer required by the State.


id: Gambia_2018-0226
author: Gambia_2018
title: Gambia_2018-0226
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 36
sentence: 1
flesch: 52
cache: cache/Gambia_2018-0226.txt
txt: txt/Gambia_2018-0226.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  for the application in the case of members of a particular race or tribe of customary law with respect to any matter in the case of persons who, under that law, are subject to that law.


id: Ethiopia-0151
author: Ethiopia
title: Ethiopia-0151
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 31
sentence: 2
flesch: 62
cache: cache/Ethiopia-0151.txt
txt: txt/Ethiopia-0151.txt
type: combative
summary:
  Laws, customs and practices that oppress or cause bodily or mental harm to women are prohibited. The State shall enforce the right of women to eliminate the influences of harmful customs.


id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0571
author: Marshall_Islands_1995
title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0571
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 48
sentence: 1
flesch: 24
cache: cache/Marshall_Islands_1995-0571.txt
txt: txt/Marshall_Islands_1995-0571.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  Nothing in Article II shall be construed to invalidate the customary law or any traditional practice concerning land tenure or any related matter in any part of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, including, where applicable, the rights and obligations of the Iroijlaplap, Iroijedrik, Alap and Dri Jerbal.


id: Fiji_2013-0352
author: Fiji_2013
title: Fiji_2013-0352
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 39
sentence: 1
flesch: 37
cache: cache/Fiji_2013-0352.txt
txt: txt/Fiji_2013-0352.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The ownership of all Rotuman land shall remain with the customary owners of that land and Rotuman land shall not be permanently alienated, whether by sale, grant, transfer or exchange, except to the State in accordance with section 27.


id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0576
author: Marshall_Islands_1995
title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0576
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 77
sentence: 2
flesch: 32
cache: cache/Marshall_Islands_1995-0576.txt
txt: txt/Marshall_Islands_1995-0576.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The customary law so declared may include any provisions which, in the opinion of the Nitijela, are necessary or desirable to supplement the established rules of customary law or to take account of any traditional practice. In the exercise of its legislative functions, it shall be the responsibility of the Nitijela, whenever and to the extent considered appropriate, to declare, by Act, the customary law in the Republic of the Marshall Islands or in any part thereof.


id: Ecuador_2021-1883
author: Ecuador_2021
title: Ecuador_2021-1883
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 23
sentence: 1
flesch: 40
cache: cache/Ecuador_2021-1883.txt
txt: txt/Ecuador_2021-1883.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  To guarantee the liberty of creation and research in the framework of respect for ethics, nature, the environment, and restoration of ancestral wisdom.


id: Ghana-0107
author: Ghana
title: Ghana-0107
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 23
sentence: 1
flesch: 54
cache: cache/Ghana-0107.txt
txt: txt/Ghana-0107.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  For the purposes of this article, customary law means the rules of law which by custom are applicable to particular communities in Ghana.


id: Ethiopia-0037
author: Ethiopia
title: Ethiopia-0037
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 34
sentence: 2
flesch: 60
cache: cache/Ethiopia-0037.txt
txt: txt/Ethiopia-0037.txt
type: competitive
summary:
  Any law, customary practice or a decision of an organ of state or a public official which contravenes this Constitution shall be of no effect. The Constitution is the supreme law of the land.


id: Mexico_2015-0012
author: Mexico_2015
title: Mexico_2015-0012
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 19
sentence: 1
flesch: 18
cache: cache/Mexico_2015-0012.txt
txt: txt/Mexico_2015-0012.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  Consciousness of indigenous identity will be the fundamental criteria to determine to whom apply the provisions on indigenous people.


id: Mexico_2015-0015
author: Mexico_2015
title: Mexico_2015-0015
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 22
sentence: 1
flesch: 46
cache: cache/Mexico_2015-0015.txt
txt: txt/Mexico_2015-0015.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  This Constitution recognizes and protects the indigenous peoples’ right to self-determination and, consequently, the right to autonomy, so that they can:


id: Fiji_2013-0003
author: Fiji_2013
title: Fiji_2013-0003
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 19
sentence: 1
flesch: 49
cache: cache/Fiji_2013-0003.txt
txt: txt/Fiji_2013-0003.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  RECOGNISING the indigenous people or the iTaukei, their ownership of iTaukei lands, their unique culture, customs, traditions and language;


id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0408
author: Marshall_Islands_1995
title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0408
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 76
sentence: 1
flesch: 0
cache: cache/Marshall_Islands_1995-0408.txt
txt: txt/Marshall_Islands_1995-0408.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The judicial power of the Republic of the Marshall Islands shall be independent of the legislative and executive powers and shall be vested in a Supreme Court, a High Court, a Traditional Rights Court, and such District Courts, Community Courts and other subordinate courts as are created by law, each of these courts possessing such jurisdiction and power and proceeding under such rules as may be prescribed by law consistent with the provisions of this Article.


id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0432
author: Marshall_Islands_1995
title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0432
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 44
sentence: 1
flesch: 21
cache: cache/Marshall_Islands_1995-0432.txt
txt: txt/Marshall_Islands_1995-0432.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The jurisdiction of the Traditional Rights Court shall be limited to the determination of questions relating to titles or to land rights or to other legal interests depending wholly or partly on customary law and traditional practice in the Republic of the Marshall Islands.


id: Ghana-1844
author: Ghana
title: Ghana-1844
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 34
sentence: 1
flesch: 55
cache: cache/Ghana-1844.txt
txt: txt/Ghana-1844.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Nothing in or done under the authority of any law shall be held to be inconsistent with, or in contravention of, clause (1) or (2) of this article if the law makes provision for


id: Ghana-0393
author: Ghana
title: Ghana-0393
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 44
sentence: 1
flesch: 8
cache: cache/Ghana-0393.txt
txt: txt/Ghana-0393.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  Subject to clause (2) of this article, the State shall take steps to encourage the integration of appropriate customary values into the fabric of national life through formal and informal education and the conscious introduction of cultural dimensions to relevant aspects of national, planning.


id: India_2016-0893
author: India_2016
title: India_2016-0893
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 43
sentence: 1
flesch: 49
cache: cache/India_2016-0893.txt
txt: txt/India_2016-0893.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Provided that in the States of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Orissa, there shall be a Minister in charge of tribal welfare who may in addition be in charge of the welfare of the Scheduled Castes and backward classes or any other work.


id: Ghana-1828
author: Ghana
title: Ghana-1828
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 42
sentence: 1
flesch: 15
cache: cache/Ghana-1828.txt
txt: txt/Ghana-1828.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The Administrator of Stool Lands and the Regional Lands Commission shall consult with the stools and other traditional authorities in all matters relating to the administration and development of stool land and shall make available to them all relevant information and data.


id: India_2016-2452
author: India_2016
title: India_2016-2452
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 35
sentence: 1
flesch: 50
cache: cache/India_2016-2452.txt
txt: txt/India_2016-2452.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Scheduled Tribes means such tribes or tribal communities or parts of or groups within such tribes or tribal communities as are deemed under article 342 to be Scheduled Tribes for the purposes of this constitution;


id: Kenya_2010-0027
author: Kenya_2010
title: Kenya_2010-0027
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 31
sentence: 1
flesch: 28
cache: cache/Kenya_2010-0027.txt
txt: txt/Kenya_2010-0027.txt
type: competitive
summary:
  Any law, including customary law, that is inconsistent with this Constitution is void to the extent of the inconsistency, and any act or omission in contravention of this Constitution is invalid.


id: Kenya_2010-1438
author: Kenya_2010
title: Kenya_2010-1438
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 20
sentence: 1
flesch: -16
cache: cache/Kenya_2010-1438.txt
txt: txt/Kenya_2010-1438.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  alternative forms of dispute resolution including reconciliation, mediation, arbitration and traditional dispute resolution mechanisms shall be promoted, subject to clause(3);


id: Kenya_2010-0359
author: Kenya_2010
title: Kenya_2010-0359
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 19
sentence: 1
flesch: 31
cache: cache/Kenya_2010-0359.txt
txt: txt/Kenya_2010-0359.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  any system of personal and family law under any tradition, or adhered to by persons professing a particular religion,


id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0215
author: Marshall_Islands_1995
title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0215
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 33
sentence: 1
flesch: 45
cache: cache/Marshall_Islands_1995-0215.txt
txt: txt/Marshall_Islands_1995-0215.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  Narikrik, Erikub, Jemo, Taka, Bikar, Bokak, Rongrik and Ailinginae shall each be included in the electoral district with which it is most closely associated, pursuant to the customary law or any traditional practice.


id: Mexico_2015-0018
author: Mexico_2015
title: Mexico_2015-0018
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 97
sentence: 2
flesch: 11
cache: cache/Mexico_2015-0018.txt
txt: txt/Mexico_2015-0018.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Elect, in accordance with their traditional rules, procedures and customs, their authorities or representatives to exercise their own form of internal government, guaranteeing the right to vote and being voted of indigenous women and men under equitable condition; as well as to guarantee the access to public office or elected positions to those citizens that have been elected or designated within a framework that respects the federal pact and the sovereignty of the states. In no case the communitarian practices shall limit the electoral or political rights of the citizens in the election of their municipal authorities.


id: Kenya_2010-1443
author: Kenya_2010
title: Kenya_2010-1443
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 18
sentence: 2
flesch: 66
cache: cache/Kenya_2010-1443.txt
txt: txt/Kenya_2010-1443.txt
type: competitive
summary:
  is repugnant to justice and morality or results in outcomes that are repugnant to justice or morality; or


id: Kenya_2010-2555
author: Kenya_2010
title: Kenya_2010-2555
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 33
sentence: 1
flesch: 40
cache: cache/Kenya_2010-2555.txt
txt: txt/Kenya_2010-2555.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  a traditional community that, out of a need or desire to preserve its unique culture and identity from assimilation, has remained outside the integrated social and economic life of Kenya as a whole;


id: Ghana-1855
author: Ghana
title: Ghana-1855
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 23
sentence: 1
flesch: 36
cache: cache/Ghana-1855.txt
txt: txt/Ghana-1855.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  undertake an evaluation of traditional customs and usages with a view to eliminating those customs and usages that are outmoded and socially harmful;


id: India_2016-2935
author: India_2016
title: India_2016-2935
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 40
sentence: 1
flesch: 20
cache: cache/India_2016-2935.txt
txt: txt/India_2016-2935.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The Governor shall make rules for the first constitution of District Councils and Regional Councils in consultation with the existing tribal Councils or other representative tribal organisations within the autonomous districts or regions concerned, and such rules shall provide for-


id: Ghana-1886
author: Ghana
title: Ghana-1886
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 47
sentence: 1
flesch: 22
cache: cache/Ghana-1886.txt
txt: txt/Ghana-1886.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  In this Chapter unless the context otherwise requires, chief means a person, who, hailing from the appropriate family and lineage, has been validly nominated, elected or selected and enstooled, enskinned or installed as a chief or queen mother in accordance with the relevant customary law and usage.


id: Malawi-0698
author: Malawi
title: Malawi-0698
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 16
sentence: 1
flesch: 58
cache: cache/Malawi-0698.txt
txt: txt/Malawi-0698.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Parliament may make provision for traditional or local courts presided over by lay persons or chiefs:


id: Liberia_1986-0022
author: Liberia_1986
title: Liberia_1986-0022
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 36
sentence: 2
flesch: 38
cache: cache/Liberia_1986-0022.txt
txt: txt/Liberia_1986-0022.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  preserve, protect and promote positive Liberian culture, ensuring that traditional values which are compatible with public policy and national progress are adopted and developed as an integral part of the growing needs of the Liberian society;


id: Mexico_2015-0021
author: Mexico_2015
title: Mexico_2015-0021
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 74
sentence: 3
flesch: 41
cache: cache/Mexico_2015-0021.txt
txt: txt/Mexico_2015-0021.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  To achieve these goals, indigenous communities may form partnerships under the terms established by the Law. Attain with preferential use of the natural resources of the sites inhabited by their indigenous communities, except for the strategic resources defined by this Constitution.


id: Mexico_2015-0024
author: Mexico_2015
title: Mexico_2015-0024
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 63
sentence: 3
flesch: 41
cache: cache/Mexico_2015-0024.txt
txt: txt/Mexico_2015-0024.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Have full access to State jurisdiction. Indigenous people have, at all times, the right to be assisted by interpreters and counsels, who are familiar to their language and culture.


id: Malawi-1263
author: Malawi
title: Malawi-1263
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 79
sentence: 1
flesch: -13
cache: cache/Malawi-1263.txt
txt: txt/Malawi-1263.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  All legal actions which, at the commencement of this Constitution, are pending or being undertaken before a District Traditional Appeal Court, a District Traditional Court, a Grade A Traditional Court or a Grade B Traditional Court before the commencement of this Constitution shall be commenced or continued before that court which shall have the same jurisdiction, powers and procedures as before the commencement of this Constitution subject to amendment or repeal of such powers by an Act of Parliament.


id: Malawi-0030
author: Malawi
title: Malawi-0030
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 40
sentence: 1
flesch: 24
cache: cache/Malawi-0030.txt
txt: txt/Malawi-0030.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  In the application and formulation of any Act of Parliament and in the application and development of the common law and customary law, the relevant organs of State shall have due regard to the principles and provisions of this Constitution.


id: Nigeria_2011-1471
author: Nigeria_2011
title: Nigeria_2011-1471
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 22
sentence: 1
flesch: 72
cache: cache/Nigeria_2011-1471.txt
txt: txt/Nigeria_2011-1471.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  a Customary Court of Appeal, if it consists of not less than three Justices of Court of Appeal learned in Customary law.


id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0117
author: Marshall_Islands_1995
title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0117
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 65
sentence: 1
flesch: 21
cache: cache/Marshall_Islands_1995-0117.txt
txt: txt/Marshall_Islands_1995-0117.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  If, in any district, a person or group of persons becomes recognized, pursuant to the customary law or to any traditional practice, as having rights and obligations analogous to those of Iroijlaplap, that person, or a member of that group nominated by the group, shall be deemed to be eligible to be a member of the Council of Iroij as though he were an Iroijlaplap.


id: Mozambique-1034
author: Mozambique
title: Mozambique-1034
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 18
sentence: 1
flesch: 42
cache: cache/Mozambique-1034.txt
txt: txt/Mozambique-1034.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  There may be administrative courts, labour courts, fiscal courts, customs courts, admiralty courts, arbitration courts and community courts.


id: Mozambique-0468
author: Mozambique
title: Mozambique-0468
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 19
sentence: 1
flesch: 36
cache: cache/Mozambique-0468.txt
txt: txt/Mozambique-0468.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The State shall recognise and esteem traditional authority that is legitimate according to the people and to customary law.


id: Micronesia-0061
author: Micronesia
title: Micronesia-0061
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 50
sentence: 1
flesch: 15
cache: cache/Micronesia-0061.txt
txt: txt/Micronesia-0061.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Nothing in this Constitution takes away a role or function of a traditional leader as recognized by custom and tradition, or prevents a traditional leader from being recognized, honored, and given formal or functional roles at any level of government as may be prescribed by this Constitution or by statute.


id: Nigeria_2011-1628
author: Nigeria_2011
title: Nigeria_2011-1628
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 44
sentence: 1
flesch: 10
cache: cache/Nigeria_2011-1628.txt
txt: txt/Nigeria_2011-1628.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The Customary Court of Appeal of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja shall, in addition to such other jurisdiction as may be conferred upon by an Act of The National Assembly Exercise such appellate and supervisory jurisdiction in civil proceedings involving questions of Customary law.


id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0572
author: Marshall_Islands_1995
title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0572
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 112
sentence: 1
flesch: -34
cache: cache/Marshall_Islands_1995-0572.txt
txt: txt/Marshall_Islands_1995-0572.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Without prejudice to the continued application of the customary law pursuant to Section 1 of Article XIII, and subject to the customary law or to any traditional practice in any part of the Republic, it shall not be lawful or competent for any person having any right in any land in the Republic under the customary law or any traditional practice to make any alienation or disposition of that land, whether by way of sale, mortgage, lease, license or otherwise, without the approval of the Iroijlaplap, Iroijedrik, where necessary, Alap and the Senior Dri Jerbal of such land, who shall be deemed to represent all persons having an interest in that land.


id: Mexico_2015-0016
author: Mexico_2015
title: Mexico_2015-0016
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 15
sentence: 1
flesch: 11
cache: cache/Mexico_2015-0016.txt
txt: txt/Mexico_2015-0016.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  Decide their internal forms of coexistence, as well their social, economic, political and cultural organization.


id: Nigeria_2011-1691
author: Nigeria_2011
title: Nigeria_2011-1691
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 22
sentence: 1
flesch: 26
cache: cache/Nigeria_2011-1691.txt
txt: txt/Nigeria_2011-1691.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  A Customary Court of Appeal of a State shall exercise appellate and supervisory jurisdiction in civil proceedings involve questions of Customary law.


id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0665
author: Marshall_Islands_1995
title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0665
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 25
sentence: 1
flesch: 52
cache: cache/Marshall_Islands_1995-0665.txt
txt: txt/Marshall_Islands_1995-0665.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  customary law means any custom having the force of law in the Republic of the Marshall Islands; and includes any Act declaring the customary law;


id: Mexico_2015-0013
author: Mexico_2015
title: Mexico_2015-0013
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 30
sentence: 1
flesch: 29
cache: cache/Mexico_2015-0013.txt
txt: txt/Mexico_2015-0013.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  An indigenous community is defined as the community that constitutes a cultural, economic and social unit settled in a territory and that recognizes its own authorities, according to their customs.


id: Nigeria_2011-2146
author: Nigeria_2011
title: Nigeria_2011-2146
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 21
sentence: 1
flesch: 8
cache: cache/Nigeria_2011-2146.txt
txt: txt/Nigeria_2011-2146.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The formation, annulment and dissolution of marriages other than marriages under Islamic law and Customary law including matrimonial causes relating thereto.


id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0132
author: Marshall_Islands_1995
title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0132
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 42
sentence: 1
flesch: 29
cache: cache/Marshall_Islands_1995-0132.txt
txt: txt/Marshall_Islands_1995-0132.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  the Council may request, in accordance with Section 3 of this Article, the reconsideration of any Bill affecting the customary law, or any traditional practice, or land tenure, or any related matter, which has been adopted on third reading by the Nitijela;


id: Papua_New_Guinea-0775
author: Papua_New_Guinea
title: Papua_New_Guinea-0775
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 26
sentence: 2
flesch: 73
cache: cache/Papua_New_Guinea-0775.txt
txt: txt/Papua_New_Guinea-0775.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  be in a marriage that is not a marriage under Papua New Guinean custom but is otherwise genuine and valid under Papua New Guinea laws; and


id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0444
author: Marshall_Islands_1995
title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0444
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 21
sentence: 2
flesch: 71
cache: cache/Marshall_Islands_1995-0444.txt
txt: txt/Marshall_Islands_1995-0444.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  appoint and remove judges of the subordinate courts, and of the Traditional Rights Court if authorized to do so by Act;


id: Papua_New_Guinea-3164
author: Papua_New_Guinea
title: Papua_New_Guinea-3164
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 48
sentence: 1
flesch: 22
cache: cache/Papua_New_Guinea-3164.txt
txt: txt/Papua_New_Guinea-3164.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  custom means the customs and usages of indigenous inhabitants of the country existing in relation to the matter in question at the time when and the place in relation to which the matter arises, regardless of whether or not the custom or usage has existed from time immemorial;


id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0433
author: Marshall_Islands_1995
title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0433
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 49
sentence: 1
flesch: 22
cache: cache/Marshall_Islands_1995-0433.txt
txt: txt/Marshall_Islands_1995-0433.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The jurisdiction of the Traditional Rights Court may be invoked as of right upon application by a party to a pending judicial proceeding; but only if the court in which such proceeding is pending certifies that a substantial question has arisen within the jurisdiction of the Traditional Rights Court.


id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0430
author: Marshall_Islands_1995
title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0430
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 73
sentence: 1
flesch: 13
cache: cache/Marshall_Islands_1995-0430.txt
txt: txt/Marshall_Islands_1995-0430.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The Traditional Rights Court shall be a court of record; shall consist of panels of 3 or more judges selected so as to include a fair representation of all classes of land rights, including, where applicable, the Iroijlaplap, Iroijedrik, Alap and Dri Jerbal; and shall sit at such times and places and be chosen on such a geographical basis, as to ensure fair and knowledgeable exercise of the jurisdiction conferred by this Section.


id: Mexico_2015-0019
author: Mexico_2015
title: Mexico_2015-0019
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 16
sentence: 1
flesch: 58
cache: cache/Mexico_2015-0019.txt
txt: txt/Mexico_2015-0019.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  Preserve and enrich their languages, knowledge and all the elements that constitute their culture and identity.


id: Philippines_1987-0050
author: Philippines_1987
title: Philippines_1987-0050
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 19
sentence: 1
flesch: 27
cache: cache/Philippines_1987-0050.txt
txt: txt/Philippines_1987-0050.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The State recognizes and promotes the rights of indigenous cultural communities within the framework of national unity and development.


id: Somalia-0285
author: Somalia
title: Somalia-0285
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 35
sentence: 1
flesch: 16
cache: cache/Somalia-0285.txt
txt: txt/Somalia-0285.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The Federal Government and Federal Member State governments shall ensure that meetings between the Presidents of the Federal Member States and high ranking officials be held regularly to discuss issues that affect their territories, including:


id: South_Africa-1779
author: South_Africa
title: South_Africa-1779
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 18
sentence: 1
flesch: 19
cache: cache/South_Africa-1779.txt
txt: txt/South_Africa-1779.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The institution, status and role of traditional leadership, according to customary law, are recognised, subject to the Constitution.


id: Somalia-0068
author: Somalia
title: Somalia-0068
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 21
sentence: 2
flesch: 59
cache: cache/Somalia-0068.txt
txt: txt/Somalia-0068.txt
type: combative
summary:
  Circumcision of girls is a cruel and degrading customary practice, and is tantamount to torture. The circumcision of girls is prohibited.


id: Philippines_1987-0637
author: Philippines_1987
title: Philippines_1987-0637
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 58
sentence: 1
flesch: 2
cache: cache/Philippines_1987-0637.txt
txt: txt/Philippines_1987-0637.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The State shall apply the principles of agrarian reform or stewardship, whenever applicable in accordance with law, in the disposition or utilization of other natural resources, including lands of the public domain under lease or concession suitable to agriculture, subject to prior rights, homestead rights of small settlers, and the rights of indigenous communities to their ancestral lands.


id: Paraguay-0996
author: Paraguay
title: Paraguay-0996
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 28
sentence: 1
flesch: 33
cache: cache/Paraguay-0996.txt
txt: txt/Paraguay-0996.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  to promote public penal action to defend the public and social patrimony, the environment and other various [difusos] interests, as well as the rights of the Indigenous Peoples;


id: South_Africa-0388
author: South_Africa
title: South_Africa-0388
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 37
sentence: 1
flesch: 50
cache: cache/South_Africa-0388.txt
txt: txt/South_Africa-0388.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The Bill of Rights does not deny the existence of any other rights or freedoms that are recognised or conferred by common law, customary law or legislation, to the extent that they are consistent with the Bill.


id: Papua_New_Guinea-3388
author: Papua_New_Guinea
title: Papua_New_Guinea-3388
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 52
sentence: 1
flesch: 32
cache: cache/Papua_New_Guinea-3388.txt
txt: txt/Papua_New_Guinea-3388.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  In the circumstances described by Subsection (1), a court may apply to a situation a decision of law that was over-ruled after the occurrence of the situation, or a practice, doctrine or custom that was current or accepted at the time of the occurrence of any relevant transaction, act or event.


id: Paraguay-0212
author: Paraguay
title: Paraguay-0212
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 42
sentence: 2
flesch: -3
cache: cache/Paraguay-0212.txt
txt: txt/Paraguay-0212.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  In addition, their defense against demographic regression, the depredation of their habitat, environmental contamination, economic exploitation, and cultural alienation[,] will be attended to. The State will respect the cultural particulars [peculiaridades] of the indigenous peoples, especially in that related to formal education.


id: Paraguay-0207
author: Paraguay
title: Paraguay-0207
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 69
sentence: 3
flesch: 32
cache: cache/Paraguay-0207.txt
txt: txt/Paraguay-0207.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  [propiedad comunitaria], in [an] extension and quality sufficient for the preservation and the development of their particular [peculiares] forms of lifestyles. The State will provide them gratuitously with these lands, which will be non-seizable [inembargables], indivisible, non-transferrable, imprescriptible, not susceptible to guarantee contractual obligations nor to be leased; likewise, they will be exempt from taxes.


id: South_Africa-2339
author: South_Africa
title: South_Africa-2339
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 52
sentence: 1
flesch: 2
cache: cache/South_Africa-2339.txt
txt: txt/South_Africa-2339.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Every court, including courts of traditional leaders, existing when the new Constitution took effect, continues to function and to exercise jurisdiction in terms of the legislation applicable to it, and anyone holding office as a judicial officer continues to hold office in terms of the legislation applicable to that office, subject to-


id: South_Africa-1783
author: South_Africa
title: South_Africa-1783
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 21
sentence: 1
flesch: 20
cache: cache/South_Africa-1783.txt
txt: txt/South_Africa-1783.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  National legislation may provide for a role for traditional leadership as an institution at local level on matters affecting local communities.


id: South_Sudan-0072
author: South_Sudan
title: South_Sudan-0072
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 17
sentence: 1
flesch: 55
cache: cache/South_Sudan-0072.txt
txt: txt/South_Sudan-0072.txt
type: combative
summary:
  enact laws to combat harmful customs and traditions which undermine the dignity and status of women; and


id: South_Sudan-1052
author: South_Sudan
title: South_Sudan-1052
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 16
sentence: 2
flesch: 29
cache: cache/South_Sudan-1052.txt
txt: txt/South_Sudan-1052.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  acknowledge and incorporate the role of Traditional Authority and customary law in the local government system;


id: Mexico_2015-0320
author: Mexico_2015
title: Mexico_2015-0320
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 126
sentence: 4
flesch: 51
cache: cache/Mexico_2015-0320.txt
txt: txt/Mexico_2015-0320.txt
type: competitive
summary:
  The law shall also set forth the requirements and procedures whereby the cooperative assembly shall grant their members private rights over land. The law shall establish the procedures whereby the members of a cooperative and indigenous people may: associate among themselves or with the State or with third parties; grant the use of their lands; transfer their land rights to other members of their rural community, in the event of farming cooperative.


id: South_Sudan-1096
author: South_Sudan
title: South_Sudan-1096
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 34
sentence: 1
flesch: 32
cache: cache/South_Sudan-1096.txt
txt: txt/South_Sudan-1096.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Rights in land and resources owned, held or otherwise acquired by the Government shall be exercised through the appropriate or designated level of government which shall recognize customary land rights under customary land law.


id: Mexico_2015-0025
author: Mexico_2015
title: Mexico_2015-0025
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 51
sentence: 1
flesch: 15
cache: cache/Mexico_2015-0025.txt
txt: txt/Mexico_2015-0025.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The constitutions and laws of the States and the Federal District shall establish those elements of self-determination and autonomy that may best express the conditions and aspirations of indigenous peoples in each State, as well as the rules, according to which indigenous communities will be defined as public interest entities.


id: Mexico_2015-0022
author: Mexico_2015
title: Mexico_2015-0022
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 13
sentence: 1
flesch: -14
cache: cache/Mexico_2015-0022.txt
txt: txt/Mexico_2015-0022.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  Elect indigenous representatives for the town council in those municipalities with indigenous population.


id: Micronesia-0063
author: Micronesia
title: Micronesia-0063
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 38
sentence: 2
flesch: 33
cache: cache/Micronesia-0063.txt
txt: txt/Micronesia-0063.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  If challenged as violative of Article IV, protection of Micronesian tradition shall be considered a compelling social purpose warranting such governmental action. The traditions of the people of the Federated States of Micronesia may be protected by statute.


id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0672
author: Marshall_Islands_1995
title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0672
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 19
sentence: 1
flesch: 62
cache: cache/Marshall_Islands_1995-0672.txt
txt: txt/Marshall_Islands_1995-0672.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  land rights means any right in any land in the Republic under the customary law or any traditional practice;


id: Nigeria_2011-1624
author: Nigeria_2011
title: Nigeria_2011-1624
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 43
sentence: 1
flesch: 29
cache: cache/Nigeria_2011-1624.txt
txt: txt/Nigeria_2011-1624.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  he is a legal practitioner in Nigeria and has been so qualified for a period of not less than ten years and, in the opinion of the National Judicial Council he has considerable knowledge and experience in the practice of Customary law; or


id: Mexico_2015-0017
author: Mexico_2015
title: Mexico_2015-0017
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 52
sentence: 2
flesch: 42
cache: cache/Mexico_2015-0017.txt
txt: txt/Mexico_2015-0017.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The law shall establish the way in which judges and courts will validate the aforementioned regulations. Apply their own legal systems to regulate and solve their internal conflicts, subjected to the general principles of this Constitution, respecting the fundamental rights, the human rights and, above all, the dignity and safety of women.


id: Nigeria_2011-1406
author: Nigeria_2011
title: Nigeria_2011-1406
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 49
sentence: 1
flesch: 51
cache: cache/Nigeria_2011-1406.txt
txt: txt/Nigeria_2011-1406.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  such number of Justices of the Court of Appeal, not less than forty-nine of which not less than three shall be learned in Islamic personal law, and not less than three shall be learned in Customary law, as may be prescribed by an Act of the National Assembly.


id: Nigeria_2011-1723
author: Nigeria_2011
title: Nigeria_2011-1723
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 62
sentence: 1
flesch: 22
cache: cache/Nigeria_2011-1723.txt
txt: txt/Nigeria_2011-1723.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  In exercising his powers under the foregoing provisions of this Chapter in respect of appointments to the offices of Justices of the Supreme court and Justices of the Court of Appeal, the President shall have regard to the need to ensure that there are among the holders of such offices persons learned in Islamic personal law and persons learned in Customary law.


id: Papua_New_Guinea-0630
author: Papua_New_Guinea
title: Papua_New_Guinea-0630
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 16
sentence: 1
flesch: 37
cache: cache/Papua_New_Guinea-0630.txt
txt: txt/Papua_New_Guinea-0630.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  any taking of possession or acquisition of ownerless or abandoned property (other than customary land); or


id: Nigeria_2011-1686
author: Nigeria_2011
title: Nigeria_2011-1686
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 44
sentence: 1
flesch: 29
cache: cache/Nigeria_2011-1686.txt
txt: txt/Nigeria_2011-1686.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  he is a legal practitioner in Nigeria and he has been so qualified for a period of not less than ten years and In the opinion of the National Judicial Council he has considerable knowledge and experience in the practice of Customary law; or


id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0574
author: Marshall_Islands_1995
title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0574
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 27
sentence: 1
flesch: 38
cache: cache/Marshall_Islands_1995-0574.txt
txt: txt/Marshall_Islands_1995-0574.txt
type: competitive
summary:
  Nothing in this Constitution shall be construed so as to preclude its application to every place within the traditional boundaries of the archipelago of the Marshall Islands.


id: Mexico_2015-0014
author: Mexico_2015
title: Mexico_2015-0014
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 53
sentence: 2
flesch: 18
cache: cache/Mexico_2015-0014.txt
txt: txt/Mexico_2015-0014.txt
type: competitive
summary:
  Indigenous people’s right to self-determination shall be subjected to the Constitution in order to guarantee national unity. States’ and Federal District’s constitutions and laws must recognize indigenous peoples and communities, taking into account the general principles established in the previous paragraphs, as well as ethnic-linguistic and land settlement criteria.


id: Papua_New_Guinea-0552
author: Papua_New_Guinea
title: Papua_New_Guinea-0552
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 24
sentence: 1
flesch: 41
cache: cache/Papua_New_Guinea-0552.txt
txt: txt/Papua_New_Guinea-0552.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  A reference in this section to religion includes a reference to the traditional religious beliefs and customs of the peoples of Papua New Guinea.


id: Sudan_2019-0269
author: Sudan_2019
title: Sudan_2019-0269
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 17
sentence: 1
flesch: 65
cache: cache/Sudan_2019-0269.txt
txt: txt/Sudan_2019-0269.txt
type: combative
summary:
  The state works to combat harmful customs and traditions that reduce the dignity and status of women.


id: Spain-0621
author: Spain
title: Spain-0621
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 94
sentence: 2
flesch: 18
cache: cache/Spain-0621.txt
txt: txt/Spain-0621.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  In any event rules for the application and effectiveness of legal provisions, civil relations arising from the forms of marriage, keeping of records and drawing up to public instruments, bases of contractual liability, rules for resolving conflicts of law and determination of the sources of law in conformity, in this last case, with the rules of traditional charts or with those of foral or special laws. Civil legislation, without prejudice to the preservation, modification and development by the Self-governing Communities of their civil law, foral or special, whenever these exist, and traditional charts.


id: Micronesia-0101
author: Micronesia
title: Micronesia-0101
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 15
sentence: 1
flesch: 44
cache: cache/Micronesia-0101.txt
txt: txt/Micronesia-0101.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  to define national crimes and prescribe penalties, having due regard for local custom and tradition;


id: Mozambique-0469
author: Mozambique
title: Mozambique-0469
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 35
sentence: 1
flesch: 23
cache: cache/Mozambique-0469.txt
txt: txt/Mozambique-0469.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The State shall define the relationship between traditional authority and other institutions and the part that traditional authority should play in the economic, social and cultural affairs of the country, in accordance with the law.


id: Papua_New_Guinea-3311
author: Papua_New_Guinea
title: Papua_New_Guinea-3311
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 21
sentence: 1
flesch: 56
cache: cache/Papua_New_Guinea-3311.txt
txt: txt/Papua_New_Guinea-3311.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  Subject to Subsections (2) and (3), custom is adopted, and shall be applied and enforced, as part of the underlying law.


id: Papua_New_Guinea-3382
author: Papua_New_Guinea
title: Papua_New_Guinea-3382
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 21
sentence: 2
flesch: 63
cache: cache/Papua_New_Guinea-3382.txt
txt: txt/Papua_New_Guinea-3382.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  is inconsistent with any custom that is part of the underlying law and is applicable in relation to the matter; or


id: Papua_New_Guinea-3319
author: Papua_New_Guinea
title: Papua_New_Guinea-3319
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 46
sentence: 1
flesch: 36
cache: cache/Papua_New_Guinea-3319.txt
txt: txt/Papua_New_Guinea-3319.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  Subject to this Part, the principles and rules that formed, immediately before Independence Day, the principles and rules of common law and equity in England are adopted, and shall be applied and enforced, as part of the underlying law, except if, and to the extent that-


id: Tuvalu_2010-0141
author: Tuvalu_2010
title: Tuvalu_2010-0141
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 16
sentence: 1
flesch: 42
cache: cache/Tuvalu_2010-0141.txt
txt: txt/Tuvalu_2010-0141.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  traditional standards, values and practices, as well as previous laws and judicial decisions, of Tuvalu; and


id: Philippines_1987-0578
author: Philippines_1987
title: Philippines_1987-0578
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 36
sentence: 1
flesch: 17
cache: cache/Philippines_1987-0578.txt
txt: txt/Philippines_1987-0578.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The State, subject to the provisions of this Constitution and national development policies and programs, shall protect the rights of indigenous cultural communities to their ancestral lands to ensure their economic, social, and cultural well-being.


id: Somalia-0293
author: Somalia
title: Somalia-0293
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 14
sentence: 1
flesch: 17
cache: cache/Somalia-0293.txt
txt: txt/Somalia-0293.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  Relations and dialogue amongst traditional leaders, and the protection and development of traditional law;


id: Vanuatu_2013-0043
author: Vanuatu_2013
title: Vanuatu_2013-0043
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 30
sentence: 1
flesch: 63
cache: cache/Vanuatu_2013-0043.txt
txt: txt/Vanuatu_2013-0043.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  no-one shall be convicted in respect of an act or omission which did not constitute an offence known to written or custom law at the time it was committed;


id: Somalia-0139
author: Somalia
title: Somalia-0139
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 36
sentence: 1
flesch: 29
cache: cache/Somalia-0139.txt
txt: txt/Somalia-0139.txt
type: competitive
summary:
  The state shall promote the positive traditions and cultural practices of the Somali people, whilst striving to eliminate from the community customs and emerging practices which negatively impact the unity, civilization and well-being of society.


id: South_Africa-1780
author: South_Africa
title: South_Africa-1780
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 31
sentence: 1
flesch: 25
cache: cache/South_Africa-1780.txt
txt: txt/South_Africa-1780.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  A traditional authority that observes a system of customary law may function subject to any applicable legislation and customs, which includes amendments to, or repeal of, that legislation or those customs.


id: Philippines_1987-0744
author: Philippines_1987
title: Philippines_1987-0744
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 35
sentence: 2
flesch: 41
cache: cache/Philippines_1987-0744.txt
txt: txt/Philippines_1987-0744.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The State shall recognize, respect, and protect the rights of indigenous cultural communities to preserve and develop their cultures, traditions, and institutions. It shall consider these rights in the formulation of national plans and policies.


id: Paraguay-0208
author: Paraguay
title: Paraguay-0208
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 17
sentence: 1
flesch: 45
cache: cache/Paraguay-0208.txt
txt: txt/Paraguay-0208.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The removal or transfer of [the indigenous peoples] from their habitat without their express consent is prohibited.


id: Paraguay-0203
author: Paraguay
title: Paraguay-0203
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 26
sentence: 1
flesch: 34
cache: cache/Paraguay-0203.txt
txt: txt/Paraguay-0203.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  This Constitution recognizes the existence of the indigenous peoples, defined as groups of [a] culture prior to the formation and the organization of the Paraguayan State.


id: South_Africa-1191
author: South_Africa
title: South_Africa-1191
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 17
sentence: 1
flesch: 25
cache: cache/South_Africa-1191.txt
txt: txt/South_Africa-1191.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  A provincial constitution, or constitutional amendment, must not be inconsistent with this Constitution, but may provide for-


id: Paraguay-0214
author: Paraguay
title: Paraguay-0214
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 29
sentence: 2
flesch: 43
cache: cache/Paraguay-0214.txt
txt: txt/Paraguay-0214.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The members of the indigenous peoples are exonerated from providing [prestar] [the] social, civil or military services, as well as from the public responsibilities [cargas] established by the law.


id: South_Africa-2432
author: South_Africa
title: South_Africa-2432
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 95
sentence: 1
flesch: -34
cache: cache/South_Africa-2432.txt
txt: txt/South_Africa-2432.txt
type: competitive
summary:
  a traditional leader of a community observing a system of indigenous law and residing on land within the area of a transitional local council, transitional rural council or transitional representative council, referred to in the Local Government Transition Act, 1993, and who has been identified as set out in section 182 of the previous Constitution, is ex officio entitled to be a member of that council until a Municipal Council replacing that council has been declared elected as a result of the first general election of Municipal Councils after the commencement of the new Constitution.


id: South_Sudan-1058
author: South_Sudan
title: South_Sudan-1058
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 17
sentence: 1
flesch: 15
cache: cache/South_Sudan-1058.txt
txt: txt/South_Sudan-1058.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The institution, status and role of Traditional Authority, according to customary law, are recognised under this Constitution.


id: South_Sudan-0742
author: South_Sudan
title: South_Sudan-0742
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 24
sentence: 2
flesch: 43
cache: cache/South_Sudan-0742.txt
txt: txt/South_Sudan-0742.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  be the court of final judicial instance in respect of any litigation or prosecution under National or state law, including statutory and customary law;


id: South_Sudan-1062
author: South_Sudan
title: South_Sudan-1062
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 25
sentence: 1
flesch: 29
cache: cache/South_Sudan-1062.txt
txt: txt/South_Sudan-1062.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Legislation of the states shall provide for the role of Traditional Authority as an institution at the local government level on matters affecting local communities.


id: South_Africa-1784
author: South_Africa
title: South_Africa-1784
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 26
sentence: 1
flesch: 27
cache: cache/South_Africa-1784.txt
txt: txt/South_Africa-1784.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  To deal with matters relating to traditional leadership, the role of traditional leaders, customary law and the customs of communities observing a system of customary law-


id: South_Sudan-0149
author: South_Sudan
title: South_Sudan-0149
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 55
sentence: 2
flesch: 43
cache: cache/South_Sudan-0149.txt
txt: txt/South_Sudan-0149.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Members of such communities shall have the right to practice their beliefs, use their languages, observe their religions and raise their children within the context of their respective cultures and customs in accordance with this Constitution and the law. Ethnic and cultural communities shall have the right to freely enjoy and develop their particular cultures.


id: Mexico_2015-1292
author: Mexico_2015
title: Mexico_2015-1292
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 24
sentence: 1
flesch: 13
cache: cache/Mexico_2015-1292.txt
txt: txt/Mexico_2015-1292.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Indigenous communities belonging to the same municipality can also coordinate their activities and collaborate according to the law and for the purposes indicated thereof.


id: South_Sudan-1097
author: South_Sudan
title: South_Sudan-1097
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 25
sentence: 1
flesch: 29
cache: cache/South_Sudan-1097.txt
txt: txt/South_Sudan-1097.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  All levels of government shall institute a process to progressively develop and amend the relevant laws to incorporate customary rights and practices and local heritage.


id: Mexico_2015-0026
author: Mexico_2015
title: Mexico_2015-0026
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 56
sentence: 2
flesch: 10
cache: cache/Mexico_2015-0026.txt
txt: txt/Mexico_2015-0026.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  In order to promote equal opportunities for indigenous people and to eliminate discriminatory practices, the Federation, the Federal District, the States and the local councils shall establish the necessary institutions and policies to guarantee indigenous people’s rights and comprehensive development of indigenous communities. Such institutions and policies shall be designed and operated together with them.


id: South_Africa-0100
author: South_Africa
title: South_Africa-0100
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 18
sentence: 1
flesch: 28
cache: cache/South_Africa-0100.txt
txt: txt/South_Africa-0100.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  systems of personal and family law under any tradition, or adhered to by persons professing a particular religion.


id: Mexico_2015-0023
author: Mexico_2015
title: Mexico_2015-0023
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 34
sentence: 1
flesch: 0
cache: cache/Mexico_2015-0023.txt
txt: txt/Mexico_2015-0023.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The constitutions and laws of the States shall recognize and regulate these rights in the municipalities, with the purpose of strengthening indigenous peoples’ participation and political representation, in accordance with their traditions and regulations.


id: Micronesia-0065
author: Micronesia
title: Micronesia-0065
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 47
sentence: 2
flesch: 38
cache: cache/Micronesia-0065.txt
txt: txt/Micronesia-0065.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The Congress may establish, when needed, a Chamber of Chiefs consisting of traditional leaders from each state having such leaders, and of elected representatives from states having no traditional leaders. The constitution of a state having traditional leaders may provide for an active, functional role for them.


id: Vanuatu_2013-0267
author: Vanuatu_2013
title: Vanuatu_2013-0267
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 29
sentence: 1
flesch: 51
cache: cache/Vanuatu_2013-0267.txt
txt: txt/Vanuatu_2013-0267.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Parliament shall provide for the establishment of village or island courts with jurisdiction over customary and other matters and shall provide for the role of chiefs in such courts.


id: Nigeria_2011-1687
author: Nigeria_2011
title: Nigeria_2011-1687
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 21
sentence: 1
flesch: 36
cache: cache/Nigeria_2011-1687.txt
txt: txt/Nigeria_2011-1687.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  in the opinion of the National Judicial Council he has considerable knowledge of and experience in the practice of Customary law.


id: Vanuatu_2013-0372
author: Vanuatu_2013
title: Vanuatu_2013-0372
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 23
sentence: 1
flesch: 10
cache: cache/Vanuatu_2013-0372.txt
txt: txt/Vanuatu_2013-0372.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Parliament by enactment shall formalise the recognition of appropriate customary institutions or procedures to resolve land ownership or any disputes over custom land.


id: Vanuatu_2013-0193
author: Vanuatu_2013
title: Vanuatu_2013-0193
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 24
sentence: 1
flesch: 34
cache: cache/Vanuatu_2013-0193.txt
txt: txt/Vanuatu_2013-0193.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The Council must be consulted on any question, particularly any question relating to land, tradition and custom, in connection with any bill before Parliament.


id: Nigeria_2011-1726
author: Nigeria_2011
title: Nigeria_2011-1726
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 85
sentence: 1
flesch: 5
cache: cache/Nigeria_2011-1726.txt
txt: txt/Nigeria_2011-1726.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  a person shall be deemed to be learned in Customary law if he is a legal practitioner in Nigeria and has been so qualified for a period of not less than fifteen years in the case of a Justice of the Supreme Court or not less than twelve years in the case of a Justice of the Court of Appeal and has in either case and in the opinion of the National Judicial Council considerable knowledge of and experience in the practice of Customary law.


id: Nigeria_2011-1454
author: Nigeria_2011
title: Nigeria_2011-1454
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 53
sentence: 1
flesch: 33
cache: cache/Nigeria_2011-1454.txt
txt: txt/Nigeria_2011-1454.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  An appeal shall lie from decisions of a customary Court of Appeal to the Court of Appeal as of right in any civil proceedings before the customary Court of Appeal with respect to any question of Customary law and such other matters as may be prescribed by an Act of the National Assembly.


id: Mozambique-0474
author: Mozambique
title: Mozambique-0474
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 24
sentence: 1
flesch: 34
cache: cache/Mozambique-0474.txt
txt: txt/Mozambique-0474.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The law shall establish forms in which traditional and religious marriage shall be esteemed, and determine the registration requirements and effects of such marriage.


id: Papua_New_Guinea-0639
author: Papua_New_Guinea
title: Papua_New_Guinea-0639
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 32
sentence: 1
flesch: 42
cache: cache/Papua_New_Guinea-0639.txt
txt: txt/Papua_New_Guinea-0639.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  for the settlement by extra-judicial means of disputes as to the ownership of customary land that appear not to be capable of being reasonably settled in practice by judicial means; or


id: Micronesia-0209
author: Micronesia
title: Micronesia-0209
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 37
sentence: 2
flesch: 34
cache: cache/Micronesia-0209.txt
txt: txt/Micronesia-0209.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Court decisions shall be consistent with this Constitution, Micronesian customs and traditions, and the social and geographical configuration of Micronesia. In rendering a decision a court shall consult and apply sources of the Federated States of Micronesia.


id: Vanuatu_2013-0376
author: Vanuatu_2013
title: Vanuatu_2013-0376
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 38
sentence: 1
flesch: 43
cache: cache/Vanuatu_2013-0376.txt
txt: txt/Vanuatu_2013-0376.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Where consequent to the provisions of this Chapter there is a dispute concerning the custom ownership of land the government may hold such land and manage it in the interests of disputing parties until the dispute is resolved.


id: Spain-0737
author: Spain
title: Spain-0737
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 39
sentence: 2
flesch: 37
cache: cache/Spain-0737.txt
txt: txt/Spain-0737.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The general updating of historic rights shall be carried out, where appropriate, within the framework of the Constitution and of the Statutes of Autonomy. The Constitution protects and respects the historic rights of the territories with traditional charts (fueros).


id: Sudan_2019-0324
author: Sudan_2019
title: Sudan_2019-0324
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 50
sentence: 2
flesch: 63
cache: cache/Sudan_2019-0324.txt
txt: txt/Sudan_2019-0324.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The members of such groups have the right to exercise their beliefs, use their languages, observe their religions or customs, and raise their children in the framework of such cultures and customs. All ethnic and cultural groups have the right to enjoy their own private culture and develop it freely.


id: Papua_New_Guinea-3322
author: Papua_New_Guinea
title: Papua_New_Guinea-3322
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 17
sentence: 1
flesch: 40
cache: cache/Papua_New_Guinea-3322.txt
txt: txt/Papua_New_Guinea-3322.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  in their application to any particular matter they are inconsistent with custom as adopted by Part I.


id: Tuvalu_2010-0119
author: Tuvalu_2010
title: Tuvalu_2010-0119
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 36
sentence: 1
flesch: 45
cache: cache/Tuvalu_2010-0119.txt
txt: txt/Tuvalu_2010-0119.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Except in relation to any act that is done under a valid law which accords with traditional standards, values and practices, any act that is done under a valid law but that in the particular case-


id: Papua_New_Guinea-3315
author: Papua_New_Guinea
title: Papua_New_Guinea-3315
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 18
sentence: 1
flesch: 61
cache: cache/Papua_New_Guinea-3315.txt
txt: txt/Papua_New_Guinea-3315.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  regulate the manner in which, or the purposes for which, custom may be recognized, applied or enforced; and


id: Papua_New_Guinea-3387
author: Papua_New_Guinea
title: Papua_New_Guinea-3387
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 55
sentence: 1
flesch: 31
cache: cache/Papua_New_Guinea-3387.txt
txt: txt/Papua_New_Guinea-3387.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Subject to any decision of law that is binding upon it, in over-ruling a decision of law or in making a decision of law that is contrary to previous practice, doctrine or accepted custom, a court may, for a special reason, apply its decision of law only to situations occurring after the new decision.


id: Somalia-0191
author: Somalia
title: Somalia-0191
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 46
sentence: 1
flesch: 29
cache: cache/Somalia-0191.txt
txt: txt/Somalia-0191.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The recognition of the fundamental rights set out in this Chapter does not deny the existence of any other rights that are recognized or conferred by Shari'ah, or by customary law or legislation to the extent that they are consistent with the Shari'ah and the Constitution.


id: Papua_New_Guinea-1546
author: Papua_New_Guinea
title: Papua_New_Guinea-1546
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 26
sentence: 1
flesch: 34
cache: cache/Papua_New_Guinea-1546.txt
txt: txt/Papua_New_Guinea-1546.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  Courts established under Subsection (1) may include courts intended to deal with matters primarily by reference to custom or in accordance with customary procedures, or both.


id: Philippines_1987-0579
author: Philippines_1987
title: Philippines_1987-0579
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 24
sentence: 1
flesch: 23
cache: cache/Philippines_1987-0579.txt
txt: txt/Philippines_1987-0579.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The Congress may provide for the applicability of customary laws governing property rights or relations in determining the ownership and extent of ancestral domain.


id: Papua_New_Guinea-3312
author: Papua_New_Guinea
title: Papua_New_Guinea-3312
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 35
sentence: 1
flesch: 35
cache: cache/Papua_New_Guinea-3312.txt
txt: txt/Papua_New_Guinea-3312.txt
type: combative
summary:
  Subsection (1) does not apply in respect of any custom that is, and to the extent that it is, inconsistent with a Constitutional Law or a statute, or repugnant to the general principles of humanity.


id: Tuvalu_2010-0145
author: Tuvalu_2010
title: Tuvalu_2010-0145
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 51
sentence: 1
flesch: 14
cache: cache/Tuvalu_2010-0145.txt
txt: txt/Tuvalu_2010-0145.txt
type: competitive
summary:
  Notwithstanding subsection (5), any law, or any act done under a valid law, which accords with traditional standards, values and practices shall not contravene subsection (1) above, unless the relevant traditional standard, value or practice would be regarded by an ordinary modern citizen of Tuvalu as one which should be eliminated.


id: Vanuatu_2013-0187
author: Vanuatu_2013
title: Vanuatu_2013-0187
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 21
sentence: 1
flesch: 72
cache: cache/Vanuatu_2013-0187.txt
txt: txt/Vanuatu_2013-0187.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The Malvatumauri Council of Chiefs shall be composed of custom chiefs elected by their peers sitting in District Councils of Chiefs.


id: Rwanda_2015-0836
author: Rwanda_2015
title: Rwanda_2015-0836
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 35
sentence: 1
flesch: 26
cache: cache/Rwanda_2015-0836.txt
txt: txt/Rwanda_2015-0836.txt
type: competitive
summary:
  Unwritten customary law remains applicable provided it has not been replaced by written law, is not inconsistent with the Constitution, laws, and orders, and neither violates human rights nor prejudices public security or good morals.


id: South_Africa-1781
author: South_Africa
title: South_Africa-1781
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 24
sentence: 1
flesch: 41
cache: cache/South_Africa-1781.txt
txt: txt/South_Africa-1781.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The courts must apply customary law when that law is applicable, subject to the Constitution and any legislation that specifically deals with customary law.


id: Paraguay-0210
author: Paraguay
title: Paraguay-0210
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 34
sentence: 1
flesch: 25
cache: cache/Paraguay-0210.txt
txt: txt/Paraguay-0210.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The right to participate in the economic, social, political and cultural life of the country, is guaranteed to the Indigenous peoples in accordance with their customary uses, of the Constitution, and the national laws.


id: South_Sudan-1059
author: South_Sudan
title: South_Sudan-1059
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 15
sentence: 1
flesch: 28
cache: cache/South_Sudan-1059.txt
txt: txt/South_Sudan-1059.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Traditional Authority shall function in accordance with this Constitution, the state constitutions and the law.


id: South_Sudan-0705
author: South_Sudan
title: South_Sudan-0705
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 35
sentence: 1
flesch: 45
cache: cache/South_Sudan-0705.txt
txt: txt/South_Sudan-0705.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Judicial power is derived from the people and shall be exercised by the courts in accordance with the customs, values, norms and aspirations of the people and in conformity with this Constitution and the law.


id: South_Sudan-0071
author: South_Sudan
title: South_Sudan-0071
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 35
sentence: 1
flesch: 14
cache: cache/South_Sudan-0071.txt
txt: txt/South_Sudan-0071.txt
type: competitive
summary:
  promote women participation in public life and their representation in the legislative and executive organs by at least twenty-five per cent as an affirmative action to redress imbalances created by history, customs, and traditions;


id: Paraguay-0205
author: Paraguay
title: Paraguay-0205
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 86
sentence: 4
flesch: 30
cache: cache/Paraguay-0205.txt
txt: txt/Paraguay-0205.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Concerning conflicts of jurisdiction the indigenous customary right will be taken into account. [convivencia], as long as they do not infringe upon the fundamental rights established in this Constitution.


id: South_Africa-1785
author: South_Africa
title: South_Africa-1785
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 15
sentence: 1
flesch: 28
cache: cache/South_Africa-1785.txt
txt: txt/South_Africa-1785.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  national or provincial legislation may provide for the establishment of houses of traditional leaders; and


id: South_Sudan-1063
author: South_Sudan
title: South_Sudan-1063
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 22
sentence: 1
flesch: 22
cache: cache/South_Sudan-1063.txt
txt: txt/South_Sudan-1063.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Legislation at the National and state levels shall provide for the establishment, composition, functions and duties of councils for Traditional Authority leaders.


id: Vanuatu_2013-0429
author: Vanuatu_2013
title: Vanuatu_2013-0429
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 56
sentence: 1
flesch: 20
cache: cache/Vanuatu_2013-0429.txt
txt: txt/Vanuatu_2013-0429.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Until otherwise provided by Parliament, the British and French laws in force or applied in Vanuatu immediately before the Day of Independence shall on and after that day continue to apply to the extent that they are not expressly revoked or incompatible with the independent status of Vanuatu and wherever possible taking due account of custom.


id: Zimbabwe-0203
author: Zimbabwe
title: Zimbabwe-0203
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 32
sentence: 1
flesch: 28
cache: cache/Zimbabwe-0203.txt
txt: txt/Zimbabwe-0203.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The State must take measures to preserve, protect and promote indigenous knowledge systems, including knowledge of the medicinal and other properties of animal and plant life possessed by local communities and people.


id: South_Africa-0387
author: South_Africa
title: South_Africa-0387
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 30
sentence: 2
flesch: 59
cache: cache/South_Africa-0387.txt
txt: txt/South_Africa-0387.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  When interpreting any legislation, and when developing the common law or customary law, every court, tribunal or forum must promote the spirit, purport and objects of the Bill of Rights.


id: Spain-0487
author: Spain
title: Spain-0487
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 44
sentence: 1
flesch: 31
cache: cache/Spain-0487.txt
txt: txt/Spain-0487.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  Citizens may engage in popular action and take part in the administration of justice through the institution of the jury, in the manner and with respect to those criminal trials as may be determined by law, as well as in customary and traditional courts.


id: Zimbabwe-1268
author: Zimbabwe
title: Zimbabwe-1268
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 16
sentence: 1
flesch: 47
cache: cache/Zimbabwe-1268.txt
txt: txt/Zimbabwe-1268.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  Judicial authority derives from the people of Zimbabwe and is vested in the courts, which comprise--


id: Zimbabwe-1284
author: Zimbabwe
title: Zimbabwe-1284
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 19
sentence: 1
flesch: 49
cache: cache/Zimbabwe-1284.txt
txt: txt/Zimbabwe-1284.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  persons presiding over magistrates courts, customary law courts and other courts established by or under an Act of Parliament.


id: Vanuatu_2013-0245
author: Vanuatu_2013
title: Vanuatu_2013-0245
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 61
sentence: 3
flesch: 53
cache: cache/Vanuatu_2013-0245.txt
txt: txt/Vanuatu_2013-0245.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  If there is no rule of law applicable to a matter before it, a court shall determine the matter according to substantial justice and whenever possible in conformity with custom. The function of the judiciary is to resolve proceedings according to law.


id: Zimbabwe-1397
author: Zimbabwe
title: Zimbabwe-1397
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 43
sentence: 1
flesch: 29
cache: cache/Zimbabwe-1397.txt
txt: txt/Zimbabwe-1397.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court and the High Court have inherent power to protect and regulate their own process and to develop the common law or the customary law, taking into account the interests of justice and the provisions of this Constitution.


id: Vanuatu_2013-0379
author: Vanuatu_2013
title: Vanuatu_2013-0379
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 18
sentence: 1
flesch: 47
cache: cache/Vanuatu_2013-0379.txt
txt: txt/Vanuatu_2013-0379.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  The consent required under subarticle (1) shall be given unless the transaction is prejudicial to the interests of-


id: Spain-0739
author: Spain
title: Spain-0739
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 31
sentence: 1
flesch: 41
cache: cache/Spain-0739.txt
txt: txt/Spain-0739.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The provision of section 12 of this Constitution regarding the coming of age, shall not be prejudicial to cases in which traditional charts are applicable within the sphere of private law.


id: Tuvalu_2010-0140
author: Tuvalu_2010
title: Tuvalu_2010-0140
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 30
sentence: 1
flesch: 41
cache: cache/Tuvalu_2010-0140.txt
txt: txt/Tuvalu_2010-0140.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  In determining whether a law or act is reasonably justifiable in a democratic society that has a proper respect for human rights and dignity, a court may have regard to-


id: Tuvalu_2010-0019
author: Tuvalu_2010
title: Tuvalu_2010-0019
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 30
sentence: 1
flesch: -4
cache: cache/Tuvalu_2010-0019.txt
txt: txt/Tuvalu_2010-0019.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  the need for mutual respect and co-operation between the different kinds of authorities concerned, including the central Government, the traditional authorities, local governments and authorities, and the religious authorities.


id: Vanuatu_2013-0373
author: Vanuatu_2013
title: Vanuatu_2013-0373
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 17
sentence: 1
flesch: 25
cache: cache/Vanuatu_2013-0373.txt
txt: txt/Vanuatu_2013-0373.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Parliament may recognise an institution as a customary institution by enactment for the purposes of subarticle (1).


id: Vanuatu_2013-0387
author: Vanuatu_2013
title: Vanuatu_2013-0387
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 31
sentence: 1
flesch: 22
cache: cache/Vanuatu_2013-0387.txt
txt: txt/Vanuatu_2013-0387.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Notwithstanding Articles 73 and 74 the Government may buy land from custom owners for the purpose of transferring ownership of it to indigenous citizens or indigenous communities from over-populated islands.


id: Vanuatu_2013-0192
author: Vanuatu_2013
title: Vanuatu_2013-0192
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 34
sentence: 1
flesch: 30
cache: cache/Vanuatu_2013-0192.txt
txt: txt/Vanuatu_2013-0192.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  The Malvatumauri Council of Chiefs has a general competence to discuss all matters relating to land, custom and tradition and may make recommendations for the preservation and promotion of ni-Vanuatu culture and languages.


id: Zimbabwe-2202
author: Zimbabwe
title: Zimbabwe-2202
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 27
sentence: 2
flesch: 27
cache: cache/Zimbabwe-2202.txt
txt: txt/Zimbabwe-2202.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  observe the customs pertaining to traditional leadership and exercise their functions for the purposes for which the institution of traditional leadership is recognised by this Constitution; and


id: Zimbabwe-2221
author: Zimbabwe
title: Zimbabwe-2221
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 23
sentence: 1
flesch: 40
cache: cache/Zimbabwe-2221.txt
txt: txt/Zimbabwe-2221.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  An Act of Parliament must provide for the following, in accordance with the prevailing culture, customs, traditions and practices of the communities concerned--


id: Zimbabwe-0280
author: Zimbabwe
title: Zimbabwe-0280
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 32
sentence: 2
flesch: 63
cache: cache/Zimbabwe-0280.txt
txt: txt/Zimbabwe-0280.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  When interpreting an enactment, and when developing the common law and customary law, every court, tribunal, forum or body must promote and be guided by the spirit and objectives of this Chapter.


id: Vanuatu_2013-0264
author: Vanuatu_2013
title: Vanuatu_2013-0264
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 57
sentence: 1
flesch: 24
cache: cache/Vanuatu_2013-0264.txt
txt: txt/Vanuatu_2013-0264.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Parliament may provide for the manner of the ascertainment of relevant rules of custom except for the rules of custom relating to ownership of custom land, and may in particular provide for persons knowledgeable in such custom to sit with the judges of the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeal and take part in its proceedings.


id: Vanuatu_2013-0374
author: Vanuatu_2013
title: Vanuatu_2013-0374
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 50
sentence: 1
flesch: 22
cache: cache/Vanuatu_2013-0374.txt
txt: txt/Vanuatu_2013-0374.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  Despite the provisions of Chapter 8 of the Constitution, the final substantive decisions reached by customary institutions or procedures in accordance with Article 74, after being recorded in writing, are binding in law and are not subject to appeal or any other form of review by any Court of law.


id: Vanuatu_2013-0388
author: Vanuatu_2013
title: Vanuatu_2013-0388
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 20
sentence: 2
flesch: 31
cache: cache/Vanuatu_2013-0388.txt
txt: txt/Vanuatu_2013-0388.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  When redistributing land in accordance with subarticle (1), the Government shall give priority to ethnic, linguistic, customary and geographical ties.


id: Zimbabwe-0019
author: Zimbabwe
title: Zimbabwe-0019
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 26
sentence: 1
flesch: 30
cache: cache/Zimbabwe-0019.txt
txt: txt/Zimbabwe-0019.txt
type: competitive
summary:
  This Constitution is the supreme law of Zimbabwe and any law, practice, custom or conduct inconsistent with it is invalid to the extent of the inconsistency.


id: Zimbabwe-0575
author: Zimbabwe
title: Zimbabwe-0575
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 25
sentence: 1
flesch: 46
cache: cache/Zimbabwe-0575.txt
txt: txt/Zimbabwe-0575.txt
type: combative
summary:
  All laws, customs, traditions and cultural practices that infringe the rights of women conferred by this Constitution are void to the extent of the infringement.


id: Zimbabwe-2198
author: Zimbabwe
title: Zimbabwe-2198
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 30
sentence: 1
flesch: 35
cache: cache/Zimbabwe-2198.txt
txt: txt/Zimbabwe-2198.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  A traditional leader is responsible for performing the cultural, customary and traditional functions of a Chief, headperson or village head, as the case may be, for his or her community.


id: Zimbabwe-2598
author: Zimbabwe
title: Zimbabwe-2598
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 21
sentence: 1
flesch: 32
cache: cache/Zimbabwe-2598.txt
txt: txt/Zimbabwe-2598.txt
type: cooperative
summary:
  any unwritten law in force in Zimbabwe, including customary law; and lawful, lawfully, legal and legally are to be construed accordingly;


id: Zimbabwe-2570
author: Zimbabwe
title: Zimbabwe-2570
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 29
sentence: 1
flesch: 51
cache: cache/Zimbabwe-2570.txt
txt: txt/Zimbabwe-2570.txt
type: complementary
summary:
  Communal Land means land set aside under an Act of Parliament and held in accordance with customary law by members of a community under the leadership of a Chief;


