        item: #1 of 473
          id: Angola-0045
      author: Angola
       title: Angola-0045
        date: None
       words: 22
      flesch: 53
     summary: The validity and legal force of custom which does not contradict the Constitution and does not threaten human dignity shall be recognised.
    keywords: validity
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        item: #2 of 473
          id: Angola-0463
      author: Angola
       title: Angola-0463
        date: None
       words: 31
      flesch: 47
     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.
    keywords: law
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        item: #3 of 473
          id: Angola-0924
      author: Angola
       title: Angola-0924
        date: None
       words: 13
      flesch: 43
     summary: The National Assembly shall have exclusive power to legislate on the following matters:
    keywords: matters
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        item: #4 of 473
          id: Angola-0930
      author: Angola
       title: Angola-0930
        date: None
       words: 25
      flesch: 29
     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;
    keywords: work
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        item: #5 of 473
          id: Angola-1222
      author: Angola
       title: Angola-1222
        date: None
       words: 29
      flesch: 8
     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.
    keywords: forms
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        item: #6 of 473
          id: Angola-1259
      author: Angola
       title: Angola-1259
        date: None
       words: 28
      flesch: 27
     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.
    keywords: constitution
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        item: #7 of 473
          id: Angola-1260
      author: Angola
       title: Angola-1260
        date: None
       words: 52
      flesch: 0
     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.
    keywords: recognition
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        item: #8 of 473
          id: Angola-1262
      author: Angola
       title: Angola-1262
        date: None
       words: 36
      flesch: 10
     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.
    keywords: law
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        item: #9 of 473
          id: Angola-1264
      author: Angola
       title: Angola-1264
        date: None
       words: 40
      flesch: -30
     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.
    keywords: authorities
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        item: #10 of 473
          id: Bangladesh-0101
      author: Bangladesh
       title: Bangladesh-0101
        date: None
       words: 11
      flesch: 80
     summary: 23A. The culture of tribes, minor races, ethnic sects and communities
    keywords: communities
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        item: #11 of 473
          id: Bangladesh-0102
      author: Bangladesh
       title: Bangladesh-0102
        date: None
       words: 24
      flesch: 62
     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.
    keywords: communities
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        item: #12 of 473
          id: Benin-0339
      author: Benin
       title: Benin-0339
        date: None
       words: 10
      flesch: 78
     summary: Under the domain of the law are the rules concerning:
    keywords: rules
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        item: #13 of 473
          id: Benin-0342
      author: Benin
       title: Benin-0342
        date: None
       words: 21
      flesch: 32
     summary: The procedure according to which customary laws shall be recorded and brought into harmony with the fundamental principles of the Constitution;
    keywords: constitution
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        item: #14 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0015
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0015
        date: None
       words: 62
      flesch: -10
     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.
    keywords: law
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        item: #15 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0047
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0047
        date: None
       words: 13
      flesch: 69
     summary: Democracy is exercised in the following forms, which shall be developed by law:
    keywords: democracy
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        item: #16 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0050
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0050
        date: None
       words: 34
      flesch: 18
     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.
    keywords: law
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        item: #17 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0126
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0126
        date: None
       words: 26
      flesch: 24
     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.
    keywords: procedures
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        item: #18 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0142
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0142
        date: None
       words: 26
      flesch: 47
     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:
    keywords: rights
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        item: #19 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0144
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0144
        date: None
       words: 15
      flesch: 39
     summary: To their cultural identity, religious belief, spiritualities, practices and customs, and their own world view.
    keywords: view
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        item: #20 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0151
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0151
        date: None
       words: 19
      flesch: 36
     summary: That their traditional teachings and knowledge, their traditional medicine, languages, rituals, symbols and dress be valued, respected and promoted.
    keywords: symbols
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        item: #21 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0155
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0155
        date: None
       words: 14
      flesch: 65
     summary: To universal and free health care that respects their world view and traditional practices.
    keywords: practices
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        item: #22 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0159
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0159
        date: None
       words: 30
      flesch: 10
     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.
    keywords: parties
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        item: #23 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0161
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0161
        date: None
       words: 24
      flesch: 45
     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.
    keywords: law
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        item: #24 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0163
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0163
        date: None
       words: 36
      flesch: 31
     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.
    keywords: life
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        item: #25 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0164
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0164
        date: None
       words: 40
      flesch: 26
     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.
    keywords: nations
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        item: #26 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0166
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0166
        date: None
       words: 30
      flesch: 26
     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.
    keywords: peoples
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        item: #27 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0176
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0176
        date: None
       words: 18
      flesch: 42
     summary: The health system is unitary and includes traditional medicine of the nations and the rural native indigenous peoples.
    keywords: peoples
       cache: Bolivia-0176.txt
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        item: #28 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0195
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0195
        date: None
       words: 44
      flesch: 23
     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.
    keywords: peoples
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        item: #29 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0196
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0196
        date: None
       words: 42
      flesch: 9
     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.
    keywords: peoples
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        item: #30 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0197
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0197
        date: None
       words: 16
      flesch: 47
     summary: The law shall regulate the practice of traditional medicine and shall guarantee the quality of service.
    keywords: service
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        item: #31 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0353
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0353
        date: None
       words: 49
      flesch: 21
     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.
    keywords: participation
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        item: #32 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0359
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0359
        date: None
       words: 68
      flesch: 35
     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.
    keywords: centers
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        item: #33 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0373
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0373
        date: None
       words: 42
      flesch: 5
     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.
    keywords: knowledge
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        item: #34 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0384
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0384
        date: None
       words: 32
      flesch: 15
     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.
    keywords: peoples
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        item: #35 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0403
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0403
        date: None
       words: 23
      flesch: 36
     summary: The State takes strength from the existence of rural native indigenous cultures, which are custodians of knowledge, wisdom, values, spiritualities and world views.
    keywords: views
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        item: #36 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0410
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0410
        date: None
       words: 35
      flesch: 44
     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.
    keywords: patrimony
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        item: #37 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0411
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0411
        date: None
       words: 36
      flesch: 22
     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.
    keywords: communities
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        item: #38 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0490
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0490
        date: None
       words: 32
      flesch: 31
     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.
    keywords: process
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        item: #39 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0807
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0807
        date: None
       words: 60
      flesch: 30
     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.
    keywords: jurisdiction
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        item: #40 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0808
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0808
        date: None
       words: 10
      flesch: -6
     summary: Ordinary jurisdiction and rural native indigenous jurisdiction enjoy equal status.
    keywords: jurisdiction
       cache: Bolivia-0808.txt
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        item: #41 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0858
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0858
        date: None
       words: 28
      flesch: 18
     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.
    keywords: procedures
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        item: #42 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0859
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0859
        date: None
       words: 23
      flesch: 32
     summary: The rural native indigenous jurisdiction respects the right to life, the right to defense and other rights and guarantees established in this Constitution.
    keywords: right
       cache: Bolivia-0859.txt
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        item: #43 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0861
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0861
        date: None
       words: 26
      flesch: 24
     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.
    keywords: people
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        item: #44 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0862
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0862
        date: None
       words: 18
      flesch: 0
     summary: The rural native indigenous jurisdiction is exercised in the following areas of personal, material and territorial legal effect:
    keywords: effect
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        item: #45 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0863
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0863
        date: None
       words: 38
      flesch: 32
     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.
    keywords: respondents
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        item: #46 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0864
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0864
        date: None
       words: 17
      flesch: 5
     summary: This jurisdiction hears rural native indigenous matters pursuant to that established in a law of Jurisdictional Demarcation.
    keywords: demarcation
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        item: #47 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0865
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0865
        date: None
       words: 29
      flesch: 34
     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.
    keywords: jurisdiction
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        item: #48 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0867
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0867
        date: None
       words: 15
      flesch: 33
     summary: Each public authority or person shall obey the decisions of the rural native indigenous jurisdiction.
    keywords: jurisdiction
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        item: #49 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0868
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0868
        date: None
       words: 25
      flesch: 29
     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.
    keywords: state
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        item: #50 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0869
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0869
        date: None
       words: 41
      flesch: -5
     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.
    keywords: jurisdiction
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        item: #51 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0908
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0908
        date: None
       words: 61
      flesch: 21
     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.
    keywords: court
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        item: #52 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0915
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0915
        date: None
       words: 32
      flesch: 31
     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.
    keywords: case
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        item: #53 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0918
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0918
        date: None
       words: 16
      flesch: 0
     summary: The conflicts of authority between the rural native indigenous jurisdiction and ordinary and agro-environmental jurisdiction.
    keywords: jurisdiction
       cache: Bolivia-0918.txt
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        item: #54 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0950
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0950
        date: None
       words: 23
      flesch: 10
     summary: The organization and functioning of the organizations of the nations, rural native indigenous peoples, and citizen associations and political parties must be democratic.
    keywords: functioning
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        item: #55 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0952
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0952
        date: None
       words: 18
      flesch: 33
     summary: The nations and rural native indigenous peoples may elect their candidates according to their own democratic communitarian norms.
    keywords: norms
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        item: #56 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0954
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0954
        date: None
       words: 22
      flesch: 34
     summary: The nations and rural native indigenous peoples may elect their political representatives whenever required, in accordance with their own forms of election.
    keywords: election
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        item: #57 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0955
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0955
        date: None
       words: 40
      flesch: 28
     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.
    keywords: norms
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        item: #58 of 473
          id: Bolivia-0977
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-0977
        date: None
       words: 30
      flesch: 38
     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.
    keywords: defender
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        item: #59 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1135
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1135
        date: None
       words: 15
      flesch: 22
     summary: The negotiation, signing and ratification of international relations shall be guided by the principles of:
    keywords: negotiation
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        item: #60 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1139
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1139
        date: None
       words: 9
      flesch: 56
     summary: Respect for the rights of native indigenous rural peoples.
    keywords: respect
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        item: #61 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1194
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1194
        date: None
       words: 13
      flesch: -27
     summary: Bolivia is organized territorially into departments, provinces, municipalities and rural native indigenous territories.
    keywords: bolivia
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        item: #62 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1198
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1198
        date: None
       words: 62
      flesch: -47
     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.
    keywords: equity
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        item: #63 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1205
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1205
        date: None
       words: 24
      flesch: 13
     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.
    keywords: objectives
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        item: #64 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1216
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1216
        date: None
       words: 37
      flesch: 27
     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.
    keywords: members
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        item: #65 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1217
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1217
        date: None
       words: 58
      flesch: 11
     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.
    keywords: gender
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        item: #66 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1235
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1235
        date: None
       words: 43
      flesch: 3
     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.
    keywords: charter
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        item: #67 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1236
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1236
        date: None
       words: 36
      flesch: 28
     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.
    keywords: members
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        item: #68 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1237
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1237
        date: None
       words: 21
      flesch: 48
     summary: The Municipal Council may draft the proposed Organic Charter, which shall be approved according to that set forth in this Constitution.
    keywords: constitution
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        item: #69 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1258
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1258
        date: None
       words: 42
      flesch: -4
     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.
    keywords: institutions
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        item: #70 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1260
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1260
        date: None
       words: 39
      flesch: 19
     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.
    keywords: law
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        item: #71 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1261
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1261
        date: None
       words: 35
      flesch: 14
     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.
    keywords: law
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        item: #72 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1263
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1263
        date: None
       words: 29
      flesch: 2
     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.
    keywords: law
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        item: #73 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1264
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1264
        date: None
       words: 15
      flesch: 50
     summary: Two or more rural native indigenous peoples can form a single rural native indigenous autonomy.
    keywords: autonomy
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        item: #74 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1266
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1266
        date: None
       words: 25
      flesch: 46
     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.
    keywords: law
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        item: #75 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1268
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1268
        date: None
       words: 40
      flesch: 11
     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.
    keywords: procedures
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        item: #76 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1270
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1270
        date: None
       words: 19
      flesch: 4
     summary: Statute shall establish the minimum population requirements and other modalities for the constitution of an indigenous peasant farmer autonomy.
    keywords: statute
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        item: #77 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1271
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1271
        date: None
       words: 30
      flesch: -12
     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.
    keywords: government
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        item: #78 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1273
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1273
        date: None
       words: 33
      flesch: 24
     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.
    keywords: law
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        item: #79 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1274
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1274
        date: None
       words: 26
      flesch: 14
     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.
    keywords: law
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        item: #80 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1280
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1280
        date: None
       words: 42
      flesch: 27
     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.
    keywords: law
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        item: #81 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1421
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1421
        date: None
       words: 14
      flesch: 11
     summary: The following are the exclusive authority of the autonomous municipal governments, within their jurisdiction:
    keywords: jurisdiction
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        item: #82 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1428
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1428
        date: None
       words: 18
      flesch: 28
     summary: To plan, design, construct, conserve and administer roads in coordination with the rural native indigenous villages when necessary.
    keywords: design
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        item: #83 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1459
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1459
        date: None
       words: 11
      flesch: 3
     summary: Systems of micro-irrigation in coordination with rural native indigenous villages.
    keywords: systems
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        item: #84 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1462
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1462
        date: None
       words: 13
      flesch: 17
     summary: Grains and sharecroppers, in coordination with the rural native indigenous villages, when appropriate.
    keywords: grains
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        item: #85 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1467
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1467
        date: None
       words: 42
      flesch: -11
     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.
    keywords: decentralization
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        item: #86 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1468
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1468
        date: None
       words: 17
      flesch: 45
     summary: The rural native indigenous region shall assume the authority that may be transferred or delegated to it.
    keywords: region
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        item: #87 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1470
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1470
        date: None
       words: 11
      flesch: -11
     summary: The rural native indigenous autonomies shall exercise the following exclusive authorities:
    keywords: authorities
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        item: #88 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1471
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1471
        date: None
       words: 17
      flesch: 55
     summary: To elaborate their Statute for the exercise of their autonomy pursuant to the Constitution and the law.
    keywords: law
       cache: Bolivia-1471.txt
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        item: #89 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1472
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1472
        date: None
       words: 26
      flesch: 21
     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.
    keywords: definition
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        item: #90 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1473
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1473
        date: None
       words: 12
      flesch: 4
     summary: Management and administration of renewable natural resources, in accord with the Constitution.
    keywords: constitution
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        item: #91 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1474
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1474
        date: None
       words: 22
      flesch: 38
     summary: Elaboration of Plans of Land Regulation and land use, in coordination with the plans at the central State, departmental and municipal levels.
    keywords: land
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        item: #92 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1475
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1475
        date: None
       words: 7
      flesch: 18
     summary: Electrification in isolated places in their jurisdiction.
    keywords: electrification
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        item: #93 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1476
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1476
        date: None
       words: 8
      flesch: 18
     summary: Maintenance and administration of local and communal roads.
    keywords: maintenance
       cache: Bolivia-1476.txt
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        item: #94 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1477
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1477
        date: None
       words: 18
      flesch: 33
     summary: Administration and preservation of protected areas within their jurisdiction, within the framework of the policy of the State.
    keywords: state
       cache: Bolivia-1477.txt
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        item: #95 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1478
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1478
        date: None
       words: 30
      flesch: 24
     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.
    keywords: law
       cache: Bolivia-1478.txt
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        item: #96 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1494
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1494
        date: None
       words: 11
      flesch: 18
     summary: The rural native indigenous villages can exercise the following shared authority:
    keywords: authority
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        item: #97 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1497
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1497
        date: None
       words: 24
      flesch: 20
     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.
    keywords: law
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        item: #98 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1672
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1672
        date: None
       words: 37
      flesch: 13
     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.
    keywords: resources
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        item: #99 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1719
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1719
        date: None
       words: 86
      flesch: 37
     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.
    keywords: process
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        item: #100 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1786
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1786
        date: None
       words: 33
      flesch: 16
     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.
    keywords: water
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        item: #101 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1790
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1790
        date: None
       words: 31
      flesch: 25
     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.
    keywords: communities
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        item: #102 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1822
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1822
        date: None
       words: 37
      flesch: 20
     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.
    keywords: areas
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        item: #103 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1830
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1830
        date: None
       words: 25
      flesch: 35
     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.
    keywords: law
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        item: #104 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1842
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1842
        date: None
       words: 35
      flesch: 21
     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.
    keywords: amazonia
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        item: #105 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1844
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1844
        date: None
       words: 38
      flesch: -18
     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.
    keywords: products
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        item: #106 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1850
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1850
        date: None
       words: 54
      flesch: 24
     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.
    keywords: criteria
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        item: #107 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1852
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1852
        date: None
       words: 66
      flesch: 8
     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.
    keywords: communities
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        item: #108 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1862
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1862
        date: None
       words: 58
      flesch: 35
     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.
    keywords: purpose
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        item: #109 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1879
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1879
        date: None
       words: 98
      flesch: 0
     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.
    keywords: exploitation
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        item: #110 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1880
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1880
        date: None
       words: 36
      flesch: 24
     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.
    keywords: areas
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        item: #111 of 473
          id: Bolivia-1889
      author: Bolivia
       title: Bolivia-1889
        date: None
       words: 16
      flesch: 42
     summary: The importance and respect of the rural native indigenous communities in all dimensions of their life.
    keywords: life
       cache: Bolivia-1889.txt
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        item: #112 of 473
          id: Chad-0090
      author: Chad
       title: Chad-0090
        date: None
       words: 10
      flesch: -31
     summary: Customary and traditional rules concerning collective criminal responsibility are prohibited.
    keywords: responsibility
       cache: Chad-0090.txt
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        item: #113 of 473
          id: Chad-0419
      author: Chad
       title: Chad-0419
        date: None
       words: 6
      flesch: 59
     summary: The law establishes the rules concerning:
    keywords: rules
       cache: Chad-0419.txt
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        item: #114 of 473
          id: Chad-0436
      author: Chad
       title: Chad-0436
        date: None
       words: 16
      flesch: 42
     summary: the procedure according to which customs are declared and harmonized with the principles of the Constitution;
    keywords: constitution
       cache: Chad-0436.txt
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        item: #115 of 473
          id: Chad-0613
      author: Chad
       title: Chad-0613
        date: None
       words: 18
      flesch: 28
     summary: Until their codification, the customary and traditional rules are only applicable in the communities where they are recognized.
    keywords: codification
       cache: Chad-0613.txt
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        item: #116 of 473
          id: Chad-0614
      author: Chad
       title: Chad-0614
        date: None
       words: 16
      flesch: 47
     summary: However, customs contrary to the public order or those that promote inequality between citizens are prohibited.
    keywords: customs
       cache: Chad-0614.txt
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        item: #117 of 473
          id: Chad-0616
      author: Chad
       title: Chad-0616
        date: None
       words: 22
      flesch: 26
     summary: The customary and traditional rules governing the matrimonial regimes and inheritance may only be applicable with the consent of the concerned parties.
    keywords: parties
       cache: Chad-0616.txt
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        item: #118 of 473
          id: Chad-0617
      author: Chad
       title: Chad-0617
        date: None
       words: 10
      flesch: 61
     summary: In default of consent, the national law alone is applicable.
    keywords: default
       cache: Chad-0617.txt
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        item: #119 of 473
          id: Chad-0618
      author: Chad
       title: Chad-0618
        date: None
       words: 15
      flesch: 90
     summary: It is the same in case of conflict between two [2] or more customary rules.
    keywords: rules
       cache: Chad-0618.txt
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        item: #120 of 473
          id: Chad-0620
      author: Chad
       title: Chad-0620
        date: None
       words: 14
      flesch: 53
     summary: The customary and traditional remedies may not be made an obstacle to public action.
    keywords: action
       cache: Chad-0620.txt
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        item: #121 of 473
          id: Chad-0623
      author: Chad
       title: Chad-0623
        date: None
       words: 17
      flesch: 30
     summary: A consultative organ called the High Council of the Autonomous Collectivities and of Traditional Leadership is instituted.
    keywords: organ
       cache: Chad-0623.txt
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        item: #122 of 473
          id: Chad-0625
      author: Chad
       title: Chad-0625
        date: None
       words: 15
      flesch: 33
     summary: The High Council of the Autonomous Collectivities and of Traditional Leadership is a consultative assembly.
    keywords: assembly
       cache: Chad-0625.txt
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        item: #123 of 473
          id: Chad-0626
      author: Chad
       title: Chad-0626
        date: None
       words: 29
      flesch: 14
     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.
    keywords: leadership
       cache: Chad-0626.txt
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        item: #124 of 473
          id: Chad-0822
      author: Chad
       title: Chad-0822
        date: None
       words: 12
      flesch: 32
     summary: The traditional and customary authorities are the guarantors of use and custom.
    keywords: custom
       cache: Chad-0822.txt
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        item: #125 of 473
          id: Chad-0824
      author: Chad
       title: Chad-0824
        date: None
       words: 9
      flesch: -18
     summary: The Traditional and Customary Authorities participate in particular in:
    keywords: authorities
       cache: Chad-0824.txt
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        item: #126 of 473
          id: Chad-0825
      author: Chad
       title: Chad-0825
        date: None
       words: 6
      flesch: 87
     summary: The valuing of use and customs;
    keywords: customs
       cache: Chad-0825.txt
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        item: #127 of 473
          id: Chad-0826
      author: Chad
       title: Chad-0826
        date: None
       words: 13
      flesch: 56
     summary: The promotion of the ideas of peace, of development and of social cohesion;
    keywords: cohesion
       cache: Chad-0826.txt
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        item: #128 of 473
          id: Chad-0827
      author: Chad
       title: Chad-0827
        date: None
       words: 10
      flesch: -14
     summary: The non-jurisdictional regulation of disputes within their territorial jurisdiction.
    keywords: jurisdiction
       cache: Chad-0827.txt
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        item: #129 of 473
          id: Colombia-1088
      author: Colombia
       title: Colombia-1088
        date: None
       words: 57
      flesch: 25
     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.
    keywords: laws
       cache: Colombia-1088.txt
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        item: #130 of 473
          id: Colombia-1404
      author: Colombia
       title: Colombia-1404
        date: None
       words: 75
      flesch: -5
     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.
    keywords: archipelago
       cache: Colombia-1404.txt
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        item: #131 of 473
          id: Colombia-1503
      author: Colombia
       title: Colombia-1503
        date: None
       words: 66
      flesch: 27
     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.
    keywords: territory
       cache: Colombia-1503.txt
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        item: #132 of 473
          id: Colombia-1505
      author: Colombia
       title: Colombia-1505
        date: None
       words: 35
      flesch: 23
     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:
    keywords: functions
       cache: Colombia-1505.txt
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        item: #133 of 473
          id: Colombia-1516
      author: Colombia
       title: Colombia-1516
        date: None
       words: 47
      flesch: 10
     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.
    keywords: communities
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        item: #134 of 473
          id: Colombia-1930
      author: Colombia
       title: Colombia-1930
        date: None
       words: 81
      flesch: -6
     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.
    keywords: law
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        item: #135 of 473
          id: Colombia-1939
      author: Colombia
       title: Colombia-1939
        date: None
       words: 39
      flesch: 4
     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.
    keywords: entities
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        item: #136 of 473
          id: Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo-0162
      author: Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo
       title: Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo-0162
        date: None
       words: 19
      flesch: 49
     summary: The State guarantees the right to individual or collective property, acquired in conformity to the law or to custom.
    keywords: custom
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        item: #137 of 473
          id: Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo-0285
      author: Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo
       title: Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo-0285
        date: None
       words: 28
      flesch: 33
     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.
    keywords: treason
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        item: #138 of 473
          id: Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo-1062
      author: Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo
       title: Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo-1062
        date: None
       words: 20
      flesch: 38
     summary: Without prejudice to the other provisions of this Constitution, the following matters are of the exclusive competence of the Provinces:
    keywords: provinces
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        item: #139 of 473
          id: Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo-1090
      author: Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo
       title: Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo-1090
        date: None
       words: 5
      flesch: 32
     summary: the execution of customary law;
    keywords: law
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        item: #140 of 473
          id: Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo-1103
      author: Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo
       title: Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo-1103
        date: None
       words: 5
      flesch: 15
     summary: The customary authority is recognized.
    keywords: authority
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        item: #141 of 473
          id: Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo-1104
      author: Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo
       title: Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo-1104
        date: None
       words: 26
      flesch: 56
     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.
    keywords: morals
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        item: #142 of 473
          id: Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo-1106
      author: Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo
       title: Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo-1106
        date: None
       words: 12
      flesch: 46
     summary: The customary authority has the duty to promote national unity and cohesion.
    keywords: cohesion
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        item: #143 of 473
          id: Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo-1107
      author: Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo
       title: Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo-1107
        date: None
       words: 9
      flesch: 75
     summary: A law establishes the status of the customary chiefs.
    keywords: chiefs
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        item: #144 of 473
          id: East_Timor-0025
      author: East_Timor
       title: East_Timor-0025
        date: None
       words: 21
      flesch: 36
     summary: The State recognizes customary laws of East Timor, subject to the Constitution and to any legislation dealing specifically with customary law.
    keywords: law
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        item: #145 of 473
          id: Ecuador_2021-0135
      author: Ecuador_2021
       title: Ecuador_2021-0135
        date: None
       words: 16
      flesch: 37
     summary: Persons have the right to enjoy the benefits and applications of scientific progress and ancestral wisdom.
    keywords: persons
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        item: #146 of 473
          id: Ecuador_2021-0297
      author: Ecuador_2021
       title: Ecuador_2021-0297
        date: None
       words: 29
      flesch: -6
     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:
    keywords: rights
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        item: #147 of 473
          id: Ecuador_2021-0298
      author: Ecuador_2021
       title: Ecuador_2021-0298
        date: None
       words: 18
      flesch: 28
     summary: To freely uphold, develop and strengthen their identity, feeling of belonging, ancestral traditions and forms of social organization.
    keywords: organization
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        item: #148 of 473
          id: Ecuador_2021-0302
      author: Ecuador_2021
       title: Ecuador_2021-0302
        date: None
       words: 16
      flesch: 58
     summary: To keep ownership of ancestral lands and territories and to obtain free awarding of these lands.
    keywords: lands
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        item: #149 of 473
          id: Ecuador_2021-0306
      author: Ecuador_2021
       title: Ecuador_2021-0306
        date: None
       words: 28
      flesch: 15
     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.
    keywords: lands
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        item: #150 of 473
          id: Ecuador_2021-0308
      author: Ecuador_2021
       title: Ecuador_2021-0308
        date: None
       words: 8
      flesch: 82
     summary: To not be displaced from their ancestral lands.
    keywords: lands
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        item: #151 of 473
          id: Ecuador_2021-0309
      author: Ecuador_2021
       title: Ecuador_2021-0309
        date: None
       words: 66
      flesch: -12
     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.
    keywords: resources
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        item: #152 of 473
          id: Ecuador_2021-0320
      author: Ecuador_2021
       title: Ecuador_2021-0320
        date: None
       words: 38
      flesch: 30
     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.
    keywords: media
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        item: #153 of 473
          id: Ecuador_2021-0321
      author: Ecuador_2021
       title: Ecuador_2021-0321
        date: None
       words: 73
      flesch: 41
     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.
    keywords: rights
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        item: #154 of 473
          id: Ecuador_2021-0324
      author: Ecuador_2021
       title: Ecuador_2021-0324
        date: None
       words: 37
      flesch: 25
     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.
    keywords: rights
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        item: #155 of 473
          id: Ecuador_2021-0328
      author: Ecuador_2021
       title: Ecuador_2021-0328
        date: None
       words: 42
      flesch: 23
     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.
    keywords: culture
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        item: #156 of 473
          id: Ecuador_2021-0452
      author: Ecuador_2021
       title: Ecuador_2021-0452
        date: None
       words: 31
      flesch: 81
     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.
    keywords: offense
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        item: #157 of 473
          id: Ecuador_2021-0925
      author: Ecuador_2021
       title: Ecuador_2021-0925
        date: None
       words: 74
      flesch: 19
     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.
    keywords: authorities
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        item: #158 of 473
          id: Ecuador_2021-0926
      author: Ecuador_2021
       title: Ecuador_2021-0926
        date: None
       words: 43
      flesch: 13
     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.
    keywords: jurisdiction
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        item: #159 of 473
          id: Ecuador_2021-1008
      author: Ecuador_2021
       title: Ecuador_2021-1008
        date: None
       words: 61
      flesch: 48
     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.
    keywords: law
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        item: #160 of 473
          id: Ecuador_2021-1246
      author: Ecuador_2021
       title: Ecuador_2021-1246
        date: None
       words: 17
      flesch: -4
     summary: Autonomous metropolitan districts, the province of Galapagos, and indigenous and pluricultural territorial districts shall constitute special systems.
    keywords: districts
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        item: #161 of 473
          id: Ecuador_2021-1288
      author: Ecuador_2021
       title: Ecuador_2021-1288
        date: None
       words: 43
      flesch: 7
     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.
    keywords: framework
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        item: #162 of 473
          id: Ecuador_2021-1289
      author: Ecuador_2021
       title: Ecuador_2021-1289
        date: None
       words: 76
      flesch: 35
     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.
    keywords: districts
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        item: #163 of 473
          id: Ecuador_2021-1420
      author: Ecuador_2021
       title: Ecuador_2021-1420
        date: None
       words: 28
      flesch: 9
     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.
    keywords: sector
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        item: #164 of 473
          id: Ecuador_2021-1441
      author: Ecuador_2021
       title: Ecuador_2021-1441
        date: None
       words: 22
      flesch: 22
     summary: Promoting the conservation and recovery of agricultural biodiversity and related ancestral wisdom, along with the use, conservation and free exchange of seeds.
    keywords: conservation
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        item: #165 of 473
          id: Ecuador_2021-1607
      author: Ecuador_2021
       title: Ecuador_2021-1607
        date: None
       words: 45
      flesch: 24
     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.
    keywords: appropriation
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        item: #166 of 473
          id: Ecuador_2021-1767
      author: Ecuador_2021
       title: Ecuador_2021-1767
        date: None
       words: 44
      flesch: 16
     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.
    keywords: care
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        item: #167 of 473
          id: Ecuador_2021-1772
      author: Ecuador_2021
       title: Ecuador_2021-1772
        date: None
       words: 53
      flesch: 33
     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.
    keywords: healthcare
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        item: #168 of 473
          id: Ecuador_2021-1779
      author: Ecuador_2021
       title: Ecuador_2021-1779
        date: None
       words: 19
      flesch: 13
     summary: Guaranteeing ancestral and alternative health practices by recognizing, respecting and promoting the use of their knowledge, medicines and instruments.
    keywords: instruments
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        item: #169 of 473
          id: Ecuador_2021-1841
      author: Ecuador_2021
       title: Ecuador_2021-1841
        date: None
       words: 21
      flesch: 24
     summary: Languages, forms of expression, oral tradition and diverse cultural manifestations and creations, including those of a ritual, festive or productive nature.
    keywords: languages
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        item: #170 of 473
          id: Ecuador_2021-1871
      author: Ecuador_2021
       title: Ecuador_2021-1871
        date: None
       words: 31
      flesch: 28
     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:
    keywords: following
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        item: #171 of 473
          id: Ecuador_2021-1873
      author: Ecuador_2021
       title: Ecuador_2021-1873
        date: None
       words: 7
      flesch: 54
     summary: To restore, strengthen and upgrade ancestral wisdom.
    keywords: wisdom
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        item: #172 of 473
          id: Ecuador_2021-1876
      author: Ecuador_2021
       title: Ecuador_2021-1876
        date: None
       words: 54
      flesch: -20
     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.
    keywords: research
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        item: #173 of 473
          id: Ecuador_2021-1881
      author: Ecuador_2021
       title: Ecuador_2021-1881
        date: None
       words: 33
      flesch: 46
     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) .
    keywords: kawsay
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        item: #174 of 473
          id: Ecuador_2021-1883
      author: Ecuador_2021
       title: Ecuador_2021-1883
        date: None
       words: 23
      flesch: 40
     summary: To guarantee the liberty of creation and research in the framework of respect for ethics, nature, the environment, and restoration of ancestral wisdom.
    keywords: wisdom
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        item: #175 of 473
          id: Ecuador_2021-1886
      author: Ecuador_2021
       title: Ecuador_2021-1886
        date: None
       words: 57
      flesch: 18
     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.
    keywords: state
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        item: #176 of 473
          id: Ecuador_2021-2140
      author: Ecuador_2021
       title: Ecuador_2021-2140
        date: None
       words: 46
      flesch: 13
     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.
    keywords: national
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        item: #177 of 473
          id: Ethiopia-0037
      author: Ethiopia
       title: Ethiopia-0037
        date: None
       words: 34
      flesch: 60
     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.
    keywords: law
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        item: #178 of 473
          id: Ethiopia-0145
      author: Ethiopia
       title: Ethiopia-0145
        date: None
       words: 26
      flesch: 37
     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.
    keywords: law
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        item: #179 of 473
          id: Ethiopia-0146
      author: Ethiopia
       title: Ethiopia-0146
        date: None
       words: 37
      flesch: 41
     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.
    keywords: laws
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        item: #180 of 473
          id: Ethiopia-0151
      author: Ethiopia
       title: Ethiopia-0151
        date: None
       words: 31
      flesch: 62
     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.
    keywords: customs
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        item: #181 of 473
          id: Ethiopia-0471
      author: Ethiopia
       title: Ethiopia-0471
        date: None
       words: 58
      flesch: 28
     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.
    keywords: recognition
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        item: #182 of 473
          id: Ethiopia-0550
      author: Ethiopia
       title: Ethiopia-0550
        date: None
       words: 38
      flesch: 32
     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.
    keywords: constitution
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        item: #183 of 473
          id: Fiji_2013-0003
      author: Fiji_2013
       title: Fiji_2013-0003
        date: None
       words: 19
      flesch: 49
     summary: RECOGNISING the indigenous people or the iTaukei, their ownership of iTaukei lands, their unique culture, customs, traditions and language;
    keywords: itaukei
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        item: #184 of 473
          id: Fiji_2013-0004
      author: Fiji_2013
       title: Fiji_2013-0004
        date: None
       words: 24
      flesch: 34
     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;
    keywords: rotuman
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        item: #185 of 473
          id: Fiji_2013-0005
      author: Fiji_2013
       title: Fiji_2013-0005
        date: None
       words: 21
      flesch: 32
     summary: RECOGNISING the descendants of the indentured labourers from British India and the Pacific Islands, their culture, customs, traditions and language; and
    keywords: language
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        item: #186 of 473
          id: Fiji_2013-0006
      author: Fiji_2013
       title: Fiji_2013-0006
        date: None
       words: 16
      flesch: 42
     summary: RECOGNISING the descendants of the settlers and immigrants to Fiji, their culture, customs, traditions and language,
    keywords: language
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        item: #187 of 473
          id: Fiji_2013-0350
      author: Fiji_2013
       title: Fiji_2013-0350
        date: None
       words: 39
      flesch: 45
     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.
    keywords: land
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        item: #188 of 473
          id: Fiji_2013-0351
      author: Fiji_2013
       title: Fiji_2013-0351
        date: None
       words: 41
      flesch: 45
     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.
    keywords: state
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        item: #189 of 473
          id: Fiji_2013-0352
      author: Fiji_2013
       title: Fiji_2013-0352
        date: None
       words: 39
      flesch: 37
     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.
    keywords: land
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        item: #190 of 473
          id: Fiji_2013-0353
      author: Fiji_2013
       title: Fiji_2013-0353
        date: None
       words: 41
      flesch: 41
     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.
    keywords: state
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        item: #191 of 473
          id: Fiji_2013-0354
      author: Fiji_2013
       title: Fiji_2013-0354
        date: None
       words: 39
      flesch: 45
     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.
    keywords: land
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        item: #192 of 473
          id: Fiji_2013-0355
      author: Fiji_2013
       title: Fiji_2013-0355
        date: None
       words: 41
      flesch: 45
     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.
    keywords: state
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        item: #193 of 473
          id: Fiji_2013-0366
      author: Fiji_2013
       title: Fiji_2013-0366
        date: None
       words: 78
      flesch: 10
     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.
    keywords: rights
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        item: #194 of 473
          id: Gambia_2018-0038
      author: Gambia_2018
       title: Gambia_2018-0038
        date: None
       words: 12
      flesch: 60
     summary: In addition to this Constitution, the laws of The Gambia consist of-
    keywords: gambia
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        item: #195 of 473
          id: Gambia_2018-0043
      author: Gambia_2018
       title: Gambia_2018-0043
        date: None
       words: 14
      flesch: 65
     summary: customary law so far as concerns members of the communities to which it applies;
    keywords: law
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        item: #196 of 473
          id: Gambia_2018-0146
      author: Gambia_2018
       title: Gambia_2018-0146
        date: None
       words: 50
      flesch: 8
     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.
    keywords: land
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        item: #197 of 473
          id: Gambia_2018-0216
      author: Gambia_2018
       title: Gambia_2018-0216
        date: None
       words: 52
      flesch: 22
     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.
    keywords: rights
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        item: #198 of 473
          id: Gambia_2018-0226
      author: Gambia_2018
       title: Gambia_2018-0226
        date: None
       words: 36
      flesch: 52
     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.
    keywords: law
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        item: #199 of 473
          id: Gambia_2018-0365
      author: Gambia_2018
       title: Gambia_2018-0365
        date: None
       words: 17
      flesch: 25
     summary: The Minister shall, in making an appointment under subsection (1), take into account traditional lines of inheritance.
    keywords: inheritance
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        item: #200 of 473
          id: Ghana-0106
      author: Ghana
       title: Ghana-0106
        date: None
       words: 41
      flesch: 43
     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.
    keywords: law
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        item: #201 of 473
          id: Ghana-0107
      author: Ghana
       title: Ghana-0107
        date: None
       words: 23
      flesch: 54
     summary: For the purposes of this article, customary law means the rules of law which by custom are applicable to particular communities in Ghana.
    keywords: law
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        item: #202 of 473
          id: Ghana-0274
      author: Ghana
       title: Ghana-0274
        date: None
       words: 24
      flesch: 30
     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.
    keywords: constitution
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        item: #203 of 473
          id: Ghana-0275
      author: Ghana
       title: Ghana-0275
        date: None
       words: 20
      flesch: 34
     summary: All customary practices which dehumanise or are injurious to the physical and mental well-being of a person are prohibited.
    keywords: person
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        item: #204 of 473
          id: Ghana-0393
      author: Ghana
       title: Ghana-0393
        date: None
       words: 44
      flesch: 8
     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.
    keywords: planning
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        item: #205 of 473
          id: Ghana-0394
      author: Ghana
       title: Ghana-0394
        date: None
       words: 48
      flesch: 18
     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.
    keywords: state
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        item: #206 of 473
          id: Ghana-1816
      author: Ghana
       title: Ghana-1816
        date: None
       words: 30
      flesch: 63
     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.
    keywords: stool
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        item: #207 of 473
          id: Ghana-1828
      author: Ghana
       title: Ghana-1828
        date: None
       words: 42
      flesch: 15
     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.
    keywords: stool
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        item: #208 of 473
          id: Ghana-1829
      author: Ghana
       title: Ghana-1829
        date: None
       words: 38
      flesch: 16
     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.
    keywords: lands
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        item: #209 of 473
          id: Ghana-1840
      author: Ghana
       title: Ghana-1840
        date: None
       words: 19
      flesch: 27
     summary: The institution of chieftaincy, together with its traditional councils as established by customary law and usage is hereby guaranteed.
    keywords: institution
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        item: #210 of 473
          id: Ghana-1841
      author: Ghana
       title: Ghana-1841
        date: None
       words: 10
      flesch: 86
     summary: Parliament shall have no power to enact any law which-
    keywords: parliament
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        item: #211 of 473
          id: Ghana-1842
      author: Ghana
       title: Ghana-1842
        date: None
       words: 23
      flesch: 54
     summary: confers on any person or authority the right to accord or withdraw recognition to or from a chief for any purpose whatsoever, or
    keywords: purpose
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        item: #212 of 473
          id: Ghana-1843
      author: Ghana
       title: Ghana-1843
        date: None
       words: 16
      flesch: 63
     summary: in any way detracts or derogates from the honour and dignity of the institution of chieftaincy.
    keywords: chieftaincy
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        item: #213 of 473
          id: Ghana-1844
      author: Ghana
       title: Ghana-1844
        date: None
       words: 34
      flesch: 55
     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
    keywords: law
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        item: #214 of 473
          id: Ghana-1845
      author: Ghana
       title: Ghana-1845
        date: None
       words: 51
      flesch: 10
     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;
    keywords: chiefs
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        item: #215 of 473
          id: Ghana-1846
      author: Ghana
       title: Ghana-1846
        date: None
       words: 44
      flesch: 27
     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.
    keywords: chiefs
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        item: #216 of 473
          id: Ghana-1852
      author: Ghana
       title: Ghana-1852
        date: None
       words: 6
      flesch: 87
     summary: The National House of Chiefs shall-
    keywords: national
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        item: #217 of 473
          id: Ghana-1853
      author: Ghana
       title: Ghana-1853
        date: None
       words: 24
      flesch: 30
     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;
    keywords: chieftaincy
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        item: #218 of 473
          id: Ghana-1854
      author: Ghana
       title: Ghana-1854
        date: None
       words: 41
      flesch: 41
     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;
    keywords: law
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        item: #219 of 473
          id: Ghana-1855
      author: Ghana
       title: Ghana-1855
        date: None
       words: 23
      flesch: 36
     summary: undertake an evaluation of traditional customs and usages with a view to eliminating those customs and usages that are outmoded and socially harmful;
    keywords: customs
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        item: #220 of 473
          id: Ghana-1873
      author: Ghana
       title: Ghana-1873
        date: None
       words: 27
      flesch: 39
     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;
    keywords: chief
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        item: #221 of 473
          id: Ghana-1876
      author: Ghana
       title: Ghana-1876
        date: None
       words: 20
      flesch: 51
     summary: undertake the compilation of the customary laws and lines of succession applicable to each stool or skin in the region.
    keywords: region
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        item: #222 of 473
          id: Ghana-1886
      author: Ghana
       title: Ghana-1886
        date: None
       words: 47
      flesch: 22
     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.
    keywords: usage
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        item: #223 of 473
          id: Ghana-2049
      author: Ghana
       title: Ghana-2049
        date: None
       words: 23
      flesch: 54
     summary: paramount chief means a person who has been nominated, elected and installed as a paramount chief in accordance with customary law and usage;
    keywords: paramount
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        item: #224 of 473
          id: Ghana-2180
      author: Ghana
       title: Ghana-2180
        date: None
       words: 47
      flesch: 31
     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!
    keywords: constitution
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        item: #225 of 473
          id: India_2016-0893
      author: India_2016
       title: India_2016-0893
        date: None
       words: 43
      flesch: 49
     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.
    keywords: charge
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        item: #226 of 473
          id: India_2016-2231
      author: India_2016
       title: India_2016-2231
        date: None
       words: 69
      flesch: 11
     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.
    keywords: state
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        item: #227 of 473
          id: India_2016-2232
      author: India_2016
       title: India_2016-2232
        date: None
       words: 57
      flesch: 19
     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.
    keywords: notification
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        item: #228 of 473
          id: India_2016-2452
      author: India_2016
       title: India_2016-2452
        date: None
       words: 35
      flesch: 50
     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;
    keywords: tribes
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        item: #229 of 473
          id: India_2016-2515
      author: India_2016
       title: India_2016-2515
        date: None
       words: 7
      flesch: 78
     summary: no Act of Parliament in respect of-
    keywords: act
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        item: #230 of 473
          id: India_2016-2517
      author: India_2016
       title: India_2016-2517
        date: None
       words: 5
      flesch: 49
     summary: Naga customary law and procedure,
    keywords: naga
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        item: #231 of 473
          id: India_2016-2518
      author: India_2016
       title: India_2016-2518
        date: None
       words: 13
      flesch: 30
     summary: administration of civil and criminal justice involving decisions according to Naga customary law,
    keywords: administration
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        item: #232 of 473
          id: India_2016-2520
      author: India_2016
       title: India_2016-2520
        date: None
       words: 18
      flesch: 56
     summary: shall apply to the State of Nagaland unless the Legislative Assembly of Nagaland by a resolution so decides;
    keywords: nagaland
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        item: #233 of 473
          id: India_2016-2619
      author: India_2016
       title: India_2016-2619
        date: None
       words: 7
      flesch: 78
     summary: no Act of Parliament in respect of-
    keywords: act
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        item: #234 of 473
          id: India_2016-2621
      author: India_2016
       title: India_2016-2621
        date: None
       words: 5
      flesch: 49
     summary: Mizo customary law and procedure.
    keywords: mizo
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        item: #235 of 473
          id: India_2016-2622
      author: India_2016
       title: India_2016-2622
        date: None
       words: 13
      flesch: 30
     summary: administration of civil and criminal justice involving decisions according to Mizo customary law,
    keywords: administration
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        item: #236 of 473
          id: India_2016-2624
      author: India_2016
       title: India_2016-2624
        date: None
       words: 21
      flesch: 71
     summary: shall apply to the State of Mizoram unless the Legislative Assembly of the State of Mizoram by a resolution so decides:
    keywords: state
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        item: #237 of 473
          id: India_2016-2935
      author: India_2016
       title: India_2016-2935
        date: None
       words: 40
      flesch: 20
     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-
    keywords: councils
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        item: #238 of 473
          id: India_2016-2960
      author: India_2016
       title: India_2016-2960
        date: None
       words: 8
      flesch: 61
     summary: the appointment or succession of Chiefs or headmen;
    keywords: headmen
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        item: #239 of 473
          id: India_2016-2963
      author: India_2016
       title: India_2016-2963
        date: None
       words: 2
      flesch: 35
     summary: social customs.
    keywords: social
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        item: #240 of 473
          id: Kenya_2010-0027
      author: Kenya_2010
       title: Kenya_2010-0027
        date: None
       words: 31
      flesch: 28
     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.
    keywords: law
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        item: #241 of 473
          id: Kenya_2010-0357
      author: Kenya_2010
       title: Kenya_2010-0357
        date: None
       words: 6
      flesch: 3
     summary: Parliament shall enact legislation that recognises-
    keywords: parliament
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        item: #242 of 473
          id: Kenya_2010-0358
      author: Kenya_2010
       title: Kenya_2010-0358
        date: None
       words: 14
      flesch: 41
     summary: marriages concluded under any tradition, or system of religious, personal or family law; and
    keywords: marriages
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        item: #243 of 473
          id: Kenya_2010-0359
      author: Kenya_2010
       title: Kenya_2010-0359
        date: None
       words: 19
      flesch: 31
     summary: any system of personal and family law under any tradition, or adhered to by persons professing a particular religion,
    keywords: religion
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        item: #244 of 473
          id: Kenya_2010-0522
      author: Kenya_2010
       title: Kenya_2010-0522
        date: None
       words: 26
      flesch: 50
     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-
    keywords: land
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        item: #245 of 473
          id: Kenya_2010-0528
      author: Kenya_2010
       title: Kenya_2010-0528
        date: None
       words: 17
      flesch: 50
     summary: elimination of gender discrimination in law, customs and practices related to land and property in land; and
    keywords: land
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        item: #246 of 473
          id: Kenya_2010-0588
      author: Kenya_2010
       title: Kenya_2010-0588
        date: None
       words: 8
      flesch: 61
     summary: The functions of the National Land Commission are-
    keywords: national
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        item: #247 of 473
          id: Kenya_2010-0594
      author: Kenya_2010
       title: Kenya_2010-0594
        date: None
       words: 12
      flesch: 4
     summary: to encourage the application of traditional dispute resolution mechanisms in land conflicts;
    keywords: conflicts
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        item: #248 of 473
          id: Kenya_2010-0615
      author: Kenya_2010
       title: Kenya_2010-0615
        date: None
       words: 18
      flesch: 33
     summary: protect and enhance intellectual property in, and indigenous knowledge of, biodiversity and the genetic resources of the communities;
    keywords: communities
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        item: #249 of 473
          id: Kenya_2010-1438
      author: Kenya_2010
       title: Kenya_2010-1438
        date: None
       words: 20
      flesch: -16
     summary: alternative forms of dispute resolution including reconciliation, mediation, arbitration and traditional dispute resolution mechanisms shall be promoted, subject to clause(3);
    keywords: resolution
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        item: #250 of 473
          id: Kenya_2010-1441
      author: Kenya_2010
       title: Kenya_2010-1441
        date: None
       words: 12
      flesch: 46
     summary: Traditional dispute resolution mechanisms shall not be used in a way that-
    keywords: dispute
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        item: #251 of 473
          id: Kenya_2010-1442
      author: Kenya_2010
       title: Kenya_2010-1442
        date: None
       words: 5
      flesch: 83
     summary: contravenes the Bill of Rights;
    keywords: rights
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        item: #252 of 473
          id: Kenya_2010-1443
      author: Kenya_2010
       title: Kenya_2010-1443
        date: None
       words: 18
      flesch: 66
     summary: is repugnant to justice and morality or results in outcomes that are repugnant to justice or morality; or
    keywords: justice
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        item: #253 of 473
          id: Kenya_2010-1444
      author: Kenya_2010
       title: Kenya_2010-1444
        date: None
       words: 9
      flesch: 51
     summary: is inconsistent with this Constitution or any written law.
    keywords: law
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        item: #254 of 473
          id: Kenya_2010-2553
      author: Kenya_2010
       title: Kenya_2010-2553
        date: None
       words: 3
      flesch: 6
     summary: marginalised community means-
    keywords: community
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        item: #255 of 473
          id: Kenya_2010-2555
      author: Kenya_2010
       title: Kenya_2010-2555
        date: None
       words: 33
      flesch: 40
     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;
    keywords: community
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        item: #256 of 473
          id: Kenya_2010-2556
      author: Kenya_2010
       title: Kenya_2010-2556
        date: None
       words: 21
      flesch: 44
     summary: an indigenous community that has retained and maintained a traditional lifestyle and livelihood based on a hunter or gatherer economy; or
    keywords: economy
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        item: #257 of 473
          id: Kyrgyz_Republic-0216
      author: Kyrgyz_Republic
       title: Kyrgyz_Republic-0216
        date: None
       words: 23
      flesch: 65
     summary: In the Kyrgyz Republic, folk customs and traditions which do not infringe upon human rights and freedoms shall be supported by the State.
    keywords: state
       cache: Kyrgyz_Republic-0216.txt
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        item: #258 of 473
          id: Liberia_1986-0022
      author: Liberia_1986
       title: Liberia_1986-0022
        date: None
       words: 36
      flesch: 38
     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;
    keywords: liberian
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        item: #259 of 473
          id: Liberia_1986-0083
      author: Liberia_1986
       title: Liberia_1986-0083
        date: None
       words: 40
      flesch: 28
     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.
    keywords: marriages
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        item: #260 of 473
          id: Liberia_1986-0212
      author: Liberia_1986
       title: Liberia_1986-0212
        date: None
       words: 90
      flesch: 47
     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.
    keywords: court
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        item: #261 of 473
          id: Malawi-0030
      author: Malawi
       title: Malawi-0030
        date: None
       words: 40
      flesch: 24
     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.
    keywords: application
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        item: #262 of 473
          id: Malawi-0116
      author: Malawi
       title: Malawi-0116
        date: None
       words: 20
      flesch: 46
     summary: Subsections (3) and (4) shall apply to all marriages at law, custom and marriages by repute or by permanent cohabitation.
    keywords: marriages
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        item: #263 of 473
          id: Malawi-0140
      author: Malawi
       title: Malawi-0140
        date: None
       words: 35
      flesch: 31
     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—
    keywords: practices
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        item: #264 of 473
          id: Malawi-0141
      author: Malawi
       title: Malawi-0141
        date: None
       words: 5
      flesch: 18
     summary: sexual abuse, harassment and violence;
    keywords: violence
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        item: #265 of 473
          id: Malawi-0142
      author: Malawi
       title: Malawi-0142
        date: None
       words: 8
      flesch: 40
     summary: discrimination in work, business and public affairs; and
    keywords: discrimination
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        item: #266 of 473
          id: Malawi-0143
      author: Malawi
       title: Malawi-0143
        date: None
       words: 8
      flesch: 18
     summary: deprivation of property, including property obtained by inheritance.
    keywords: property
       cache: Malawi-0143.txt
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        item: #267 of 473
          id: Malawi-0698
      author: Malawi
       title: Malawi-0698
        date: None
       words: 16
      flesch: 58
     summary: Parliament may make provision for traditional or local courts presided over by lay persons or chiefs:
    keywords: parliament
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        item: #268 of 473
          id: Malawi-0699
      author: Malawi
       title: Malawi-0699
        date: None
       words: 32
      flesch: 52
     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.
    keywords: law
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        item: #269 of 473
          id: Malawi-0705
      author: Malawi
       title: Malawi-0705
        date: None
       words: 12
      flesch: 74
     summary: For the purposes of this Chapter “judicial office” means the office of—
    keywords: office
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        item: #270 of 473
          id: Malawi-0710
      author: Malawi
       title: Malawi-0710
        date: None
       words: 9
      flesch: 56
     summary: a person presiding over a traditional or local court.
    keywords: court
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        item: #271 of 473
          id: Malawi-1252
      author: Malawi
       title: Malawi-1252
        date: None
       words: 48
      flesch: 32
     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:
    keywords: law
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        item: #272 of 473
          id: Malawi-1261
      author: Malawi
       title: Malawi-1261
        date: None
       words: 96
      flesch: -25
     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.
    keywords: court
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        item: #273 of 473
          id: Malawi-1263
      author: Malawi
       title: Malawi-1263
        date: None
       words: 79
      flesch: -13
     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.
    keywords: court
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        item: #274 of 473
          id: Malawi-1264
      author: Malawi
       title: Malawi-1264
        date: None
       words: 38
      flesch: 39
     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.
    keywords: court
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        item: #275 of 473
          id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0062
      author: Marshall_Islands_1995
       title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0062
        date: None
       words: 32
      flesch: 50
     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.
    keywords: court
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        item: #276 of 473
          id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0117
      author: Marshall_Islands_1995
       title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0117
        date: None
       words: 65
      flesch: 21
     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.
    keywords: group
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        item: #277 of 473
          id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0123
      author: Marshall_Islands_1995
       title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0123
        date: None
       words: 102
      flesch: -15
     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.
    keywords: council
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        item: #278 of 473
          id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0130
      author: Marshall_Islands_1995
       title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0130
        date: None
       words: 9
      flesch: 75
     summary: The Council of Iroij shall have the following functions:
    keywords: functions
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        item: #279 of 473
          id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0132
      author: Marshall_Islands_1995
       title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0132
        date: None
       words: 42
      flesch: 29
     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;
    keywords: nitijela
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        item: #280 of 473
          id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0136
      author: Marshall_Islands_1995
       title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0136
        date: None
       words: 72
      flesch: 4
     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.
    keywords: council
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        item: #281 of 473
          id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0171
      author: Marshall_Islands_1995
       title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0171
        date: None
       words: 89
      flesch: -6
     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.
    keywords: council
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        item: #282 of 473
          id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0215
      author: Marshall_Islands_1995
       title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0215
        date: None
       words: 33
      flesch: 45
     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.
    keywords: narikrik
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        item: #283 of 473
          id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0218
      author: Marshall_Islands_1995
       title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0218
        date: None
       words: 64
      flesch: -2
     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.
    keywords: population
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        item: #284 of 473
          id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0408
      author: Marshall_Islands_1995
       title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0408
        date: None
       words: 76
      flesch: 0
     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.
    keywords: courts
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        item: #285 of 473
          id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0430
      author: Marshall_Islands_1995
       title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0430
        date: None
       words: 73
      flesch: 13
     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.
    keywords: rights
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        item: #286 of 473
          id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0431
      author: Marshall_Islands_1995
       title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0431
        date: None
       words: 39
      flesch: 43
     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.
    keywords: court
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        item: #287 of 473
          id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0432
      author: Marshall_Islands_1995
       title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0432
        date: None
       words: 44
      flesch: 21
     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.
    keywords: rights
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        item: #288 of 473
          id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0433
      author: Marshall_Islands_1995
       title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0433
        date: None
       words: 49
      flesch: 22
     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.
    keywords: court
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        item: #289 of 473
          id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0434
      author: Marshall_Islands_1995
       title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0434
        date: None
       words: 54
      flesch: 11
     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.
    keywords: court
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        item: #290 of 473
          id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0441
      author: Marshall_Islands_1995
       title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0441
        date: None
       words: 5
      flesch: 32
     summary: The Judicial Service Commission shall
    keywords: service
       cache: Marshall_Islands_1995-0441.txt
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        item: #291 of 473
          id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0444
      author: Marshall_Islands_1995
       title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0444
        date: None
       words: 21
      flesch: 71
     summary: appoint and remove judges of the subordinate courts, and of the Traditional Rights Court if authorized to do so by Act;
    keywords: act
       cache: Marshall_Islands_1995-0444.txt
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        item: #292 of 473
          id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0571
      author: Marshall_Islands_1995
       title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0571
        date: None
       words: 48
      flesch: 24
     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.
    keywords: jerbal
       cache: Marshall_Islands_1995-0571.txt
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        item: #293 of 473
          id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0572
      author: Marshall_Islands_1995
       title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0572
        date: None
       words: 112
      flesch: -34
     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.
    keywords: land
       cache: Marshall_Islands_1995-0572.txt
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        item: #294 of 473
          id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0574
      author: Marshall_Islands_1995
       title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0574
        date: None
       words: 27
      flesch: 38
     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.
    keywords: islands
       cache: Marshall_Islands_1995-0574.txt
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        item: #295 of 473
          id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0576
      author: Marshall_Islands_1995
       title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0576
        date: None
       words: 77
      flesch: 32
     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.
    keywords: law
       cache: Marshall_Islands_1995-0576.txt
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        item: #296 of 473
          id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0665
      author: Marshall_Islands_1995
       title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0665
        date: None
       words: 25
      flesch: 52
     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;
    keywords: law
       cache: Marshall_Islands_1995-0665.txt
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        item: #297 of 473
          id: Marshall_Islands_1995-0672
      author: Marshall_Islands_1995
       title: Marshall_Islands_1995-0672
        date: None
       words: 19
      flesch: 62
     summary: land rights means any right in any land in the Republic under the customary law or any traditional practice;
    keywords: land
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        item: #298 of 473
          id: Mexico_2015-0012
      author: Mexico_2015
       title: Mexico_2015-0012
        date: None
       words: 19
      flesch: 18
     summary: Consciousness of indigenous identity will be the fundamental criteria to determine to whom apply the provisions on indigenous people.
    keywords: consciousness
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        item: #299 of 473
          id: Mexico_2015-0013
      author: Mexico_2015
       title: Mexico_2015-0013
        date: None
       words: 30
      flesch: 29
     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.
    keywords: community
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        item: #300 of 473
          id: Mexico_2015-0014
      author: Mexico_2015
       title: Mexico_2015-0014
        date: None
       words: 53
      flesch: 18
     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.
    keywords: unity
       cache: Mexico_2015-0014.txt
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        item: #301 of 473
          id: Mexico_2015-0015
      author: Mexico_2015
       title: Mexico_2015-0015
        date: None
       words: 22
      flesch: 46
     summary: This Constitution recognizes and protects the indigenous peoples’ right to self-determination and, consequently, the right to autonomy, so that they can:
    keywords: right
       cache: Mexico_2015-0015.txt
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        item: #302 of 473
          id: Mexico_2015-0016
      author: Mexico_2015
       title: Mexico_2015-0016
        date: None
       words: 15
      flesch: 11
     summary: Decide their internal forms of coexistence, as well their social, economic, political and cultural organization.
    keywords: organization
       cache: Mexico_2015-0016.txt
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        item: #303 of 473
          id: Mexico_2015-0017
      author: Mexico_2015
       title: Mexico_2015-0017
        date: None
       words: 52
      flesch: 42
     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.
    keywords: rights
       cache: Mexico_2015-0017.txt
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        item: #304 of 473
          id: Mexico_2015-0018
      author: Mexico_2015
       title: Mexico_2015-0018
        date: None
       words: 97
      flesch: 11
     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.
    keywords: authorities
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        item: #305 of 473
          id: Mexico_2015-0019
      author: Mexico_2015
       title: Mexico_2015-0019
        date: None
       words: 16
      flesch: 58
     summary: Preserve and enrich their languages, knowledge and all the elements that constitute their culture and identity.
    keywords: identity
       cache: Mexico_2015-0019.txt
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        item: #306 of 473
          id: Mexico_2015-0020
      author: Mexico_2015
       title: Mexico_2015-0020
        date: None
       words: 11
      flesch: 34
     summary: Maintain and improve their environment and lands, according to this Constitution.
    keywords: constitution
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        item: #307 of 473
          id: Mexico_2015-0021
      author: Mexico_2015
       title: Mexico_2015-0021
        date: None
       words: 74
      flesch: 41
     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.
    keywords: constitution
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        item: #308 of 473
          id: Mexico_2015-0022
      author: Mexico_2015
       title: Mexico_2015-0022
        date: None
       words: 13
      flesch: -14
     summary: Elect indigenous representatives for the town council in those municipalities with indigenous population.
    keywords: population
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        item: #309 of 473
          id: Mexico_2015-0023
      author: Mexico_2015
       title: Mexico_2015-0023
        date: None
       words: 34
      flesch: 0
     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.
    keywords: regulations
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        item: #310 of 473
          id: Mexico_2015-0024
      author: Mexico_2015
       title: Mexico_2015-0024
        date: None
       words: 63
      flesch: 41
     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.
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        item: #311 of 473
          id: Mexico_2015-0025
      author: Mexico_2015
       title: Mexico_2015-0025
        date: None
       words: 51
      flesch: 15
     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.
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        item: #312 of 473
          id: Mexico_2015-0026
      author: Mexico_2015
       title: Mexico_2015-0026
        date: None
       words: 56
      flesch: 10
     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.
    keywords: institutions
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        item: #313 of 473
          id: Mexico_2015-0318
      author: Mexico_2015
       title: Mexico_2015-0318
        date: None
       words: 11
      flesch: 72
     summary: The law shall protect the wholeness of the indigenous groups’ lands.
    keywords: lands
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        item: #314 of 473
          id: Mexico_2015-0320
      author: Mexico_2015
       title: Mexico_2015-0320
        date: None
       words: 126
      flesch: 51
     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.
    keywords: law
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        item: #315 of 473
          id: Mexico_2015-1292
      author: Mexico_2015
       title: Mexico_2015-1292
        date: None
       words: 24
      flesch: 13
     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.
    keywords: purposes
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        item: #316 of 473
          id: Micronesia-0061
      author: Micronesia
       title: Micronesia-0061
        date: None
       words: 50
      flesch: 15
     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.
    keywords: leader
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        item: #317 of 473
          id: Micronesia-0063
      author: Micronesia
       title: Micronesia-0063
        date: None
       words: 38
      flesch: 33
     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.
    keywords: traditions
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        item: #318 of 473
          id: Micronesia-0065
      author: Micronesia
       title: Micronesia-0065
        date: None
       words: 47
      flesch: 38
     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.
    keywords: leaders
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        item: #319 of 473
          id: Micronesia-0085
      author: Micronesia
       title: Micronesia-0085
        date: None
       words: 8
      flesch: 50
     summary: The following powers are expressly delegated to Congress:
    keywords: congress
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        item: #320 of 473
          id: Micronesia-0101
      author: Micronesia
       title: Micronesia-0101
        date: None
       words: 15
      flesch: 44
     summary: to define national crimes and prescribe penalties, having due regard for local custom and tradition;
    keywords: tradition
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        item: #321 of 473
          id: Micronesia-0209
      author: Micronesia
       title: Micronesia-0209
        date: None
       words: 37
      flesch: 34
     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.
    keywords: micronesia
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        item: #322 of 473
          id: Mozambique-0468
      author: Mozambique
       title: Mozambique-0468
        date: None
       words: 19
      flesch: 36
     summary: The State shall recognise and esteem traditional authority that is legitimate according to the people and to customary law.
    keywords: law
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        item: #323 of 473
          id: Mozambique-0469
      author: Mozambique
       title: Mozambique-0469
        date: None
       words: 35
      flesch: 23
     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.
    keywords: authority
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        item: #324 of 473
          id: Mozambique-0474
      author: Mozambique
       title: Mozambique-0474
        date: None
       words: 24
      flesch: 34
     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.
    keywords: marriage
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        item: #325 of 473
          id: Mozambique-1034
      author: Mozambique
       title: Mozambique-1034
        date: None
       words: 18
      flesch: 42
     summary: There may be administrative courts, labour courts, fiscal courts, customs courts, admiralty courts, arbitration courts and community courts.
    keywords: courts
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        item: #326 of 473
          id: Nigeria_2011-1406
      author: Nigeria_2011
       title: Nigeria_2011-1406
        date: None
       words: 49
      flesch: 51
     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.
    keywords: law
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        item: #327 of 473
          id: Nigeria_2011-1454
      author: Nigeria_2011
       title: Nigeria_2011-1454
        date: None
       words: 53
      flesch: 33
     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.
    keywords: appeal
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        item: #328 of 473
          id: Nigeria_2011-1471
      author: Nigeria_2011
       title: Nigeria_2011-1471
        date: None
       words: 22
      flesch: 72
     summary: a Customary Court of Appeal, if it consists of not less than three Justices of Court of Appeal learned in Customary law.
    keywords: appeal
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        item: #329 of 473
          id: Nigeria_2011-1624
      author: Nigeria_2011
       title: Nigeria_2011-1624
        date: None
       words: 43
      flesch: 29
     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
    keywords: law
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        item: #330 of 473
          id: Nigeria_2011-1625
      author: Nigeria_2011
       title: Nigeria_2011-1625
        date: None
       words: 21
      flesch: 36
     summary: in the opinion of the National Judicial Council he has considerable knowledge of and experience in the practice of Customary law.
    keywords: law
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        item: #331 of 473
          id: Nigeria_2011-1628
      author: Nigeria_2011
       title: Nigeria_2011-1628
        date: None
       words: 44
      flesch: 10
     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.
    keywords: jurisdiction
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        item: #332 of 473
          id: Nigeria_2011-1686
      author: Nigeria_2011
       title: Nigeria_2011-1686
        date: None
       words: 44
      flesch: 29
     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
    keywords: law
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        item: #333 of 473
          id: Nigeria_2011-1687
      author: Nigeria_2011
       title: Nigeria_2011-1687
        date: None
       words: 21
      flesch: 36
     summary: in the opinion of the National Judicial Council he has considerable knowledge of and experience in the practice of Customary law.
    keywords: law
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        item: #334 of 473
          id: Nigeria_2011-1691
      author: Nigeria_2011
       title: Nigeria_2011-1691
        date: None
       words: 22
      flesch: 26
     summary: A Customary Court of Appeal of a State shall exercise appellate and supervisory jurisdiction in civil proceedings involve questions of Customary law.
    keywords: law
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        item: #335 of 473
          id: Nigeria_2011-1723
      author: Nigeria_2011
       title: Nigeria_2011-1723
        date: None
       words: 62
      flesch: 22
     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.
    keywords: law
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        item: #336 of 473
          id: Nigeria_2011-1726
      author: Nigeria_2011
       title: Nigeria_2011-1726
        date: None
       words: 85
      flesch: 5
     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.
    keywords: case
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        item: #337 of 473
          id: Nigeria_2011-2146
      author: Nigeria_2011
       title: Nigeria_2011-2146
        date: None
       words: 21
      flesch: 8
     summary: The formation, annulment and dissolution of marriages other than marriages under Islamic law and Customary law including matrimonial causes relating thereto.
    keywords: marriages
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        item: #338 of 473
          id: Papua_New_Guinea-0552
      author: Papua_New_Guinea
       title: Papua_New_Guinea-0552
        date: None
       words: 24
      flesch: 41
     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.
    keywords: reference
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        item: #339 of 473
          id: Papua_New_Guinea-0621
      author: Papua_New_Guinea
       title: Papua_New_Guinea-0621
        date: None
       words: 9
      flesch: 37
     summary: Nothing in the preceding provisions of this section prevents-
    keywords: section
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        item: #340 of 473
          id: Papua_New_Guinea-0629
      author: Papua_New_Guinea
       title: Papua_New_Guinea-0629
        date: None
       words: 13
      flesch: 50
     summary: any taking of possession or acquisition that is in accordance with custom; or
    keywords: taking
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        item: #341 of 473
          id: Papua_New_Guinea-0630
      author: Papua_New_Guinea
       title: Papua_New_Guinea-0630
        date: None
       words: 16
      flesch: 37
     summary: any taking of possession or acquisition of ownerless or abandoned property (other than customary land); or
    keywords: taking
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        item: #342 of 473
          id: Papua_New_Guinea-0639
      author: Papua_New_Guinea
       title: Papua_New_Guinea-0639
        date: None
       words: 32
      flesch: 42
     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
    keywords: means
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        item: #343 of 473
          id: Papua_New_Guinea-0775
      author: Papua_New_Guinea
       title: Papua_New_Guinea-0775
        date: None
       words: 26
      flesch: 73
     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
    keywords: marriage
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        item: #344 of 473
          id: Papua_New_Guinea-0892
      author: Papua_New_Guinea
       title: Papua_New_Guinea-0892
        date: None
       words: 15
      flesch: 39
     summary: In Subsection (1), a reference to adoption includes a reference to an adoption by custom.
    keywords: adoption
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        item: #345 of 473
          id: Papua_New_Guinea-1546
      author: Papua_New_Guinea
       title: Papua_New_Guinea-1546
        date: None
       words: 26
      flesch: 34
     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.
    keywords: courts
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        item: #346 of 473
          id: Papua_New_Guinea-3164
      author: Papua_New_Guinea
       title: Papua_New_Guinea-3164
        date: None
       words: 48
      flesch: 22
     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;
    keywords: custom
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        item: #347 of 473
          id: Papua_New_Guinea-3311
      author: Papua_New_Guinea
       title: Papua_New_Guinea-3311
        date: None
       words: 21
      flesch: 56
     summary: Subject to Subsections (2) and (3), custom is adopted, and shall be applied and enforced, as part of the underlying law.
    keywords: law
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        item: #348 of 473
          id: Papua_New_Guinea-3312
      author: Papua_New_Guinea
       title: Papua_New_Guinea-3312
        date: None
       words: 35
      flesch: 35
     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.
    keywords: subsection
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        item: #349 of 473
          id: Papua_New_Guinea-3313
      author: Papua_New_Guinea
       title: Papua_New_Guinea-3313
        date: None
       words: 6
      flesch: 87
     summary: An Act of the Parliament may-
    keywords: act
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        item: #350 of 473
          id: Papua_New_Guinea-3314
      author: Papua_New_Guinea
       title: Papua_New_Guinea-3314
        date: None
       words: 12
      flesch: 94
     summary: provide for the proof and pleading of custom for any purpose; and
    keywords: purpose
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        item: #351 of 473
          id: Papua_New_Guinea-3315
      author: Papua_New_Guinea
       title: Papua_New_Guinea-3315
        date: None
       words: 18
      flesch: 61
     summary: regulate the manner in which, or the purposes for which, custom may be recognized, applied or enforced; and
    keywords: manner
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        item: #352 of 473
          id: Papua_New_Guinea-3316
      author: Papua_New_Guinea
       title: Papua_New_Guinea-3316
        date: None
       words: 8
      flesch: 65
     summary: provide for the resolution of conflicts of custom.
    keywords: custom
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        item: #353 of 473
          id: Papua_New_Guinea-3319
      author: Papua_New_Guinea
       title: Papua_New_Guinea-3319
        date: None
       words: 46
      flesch: 36
     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-
    keywords: rules
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        item: #354 of 473
          id: Papua_New_Guinea-3334
      author: Papua_New_Guinea
       title: Papua_New_Guinea-3334
        date: None
       words: 11
      flesch: 64
     summary: to analogies to be drawn from relevant statutes and customs; and
    keywords: analogies
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        item: #355 of 473
          id: Papua_New_Guinea-3382
      author: Papua_New_Guinea
       title: Papua_New_Guinea-3382
        date: None
       words: 21
      flesch: 63
     summary: is inconsistent with any custom that is part of the underlying law and is applicable in relation to the matter; or
    keywords: matter
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        item: #356 of 473
          id: Papua_New_Guinea-3387
      author: Papua_New_Guinea
       title: Papua_New_Guinea-3387
        date: None
       words: 55
      flesch: 31
     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.
    keywords: decision
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        item: #357 of 473
          id: Papua_New_Guinea-3388
      author: Papua_New_Guinea
       title: Papua_New_Guinea-3388
        date: None
       words: 52
      flesch: 32
     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.
    keywords: occurrence
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        item: #358 of 473
          id: Paraguay-0203
      author: Paraguay
       title: Paraguay-0203
        date: None
       words: 26
      flesch: 34
     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.
    keywords: state
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        item: #359 of 473
          id: Paraguay-0205
      author: Paraguay
       title: Paraguay-0205
        date: None
       words: 86
      flesch: 30
     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.
    keywords: right
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        item: #360 of 473
          id: Paraguay-0207
      author: Paraguay
       title: Paraguay-0207
        date: None
       words: 69
      flesch: 32
     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.
    keywords: peculiares
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        item: #361 of 473
          id: Paraguay-0208
      author: Paraguay
       title: Paraguay-0208
        date: None
       words: 17
      flesch: 45
     summary: The removal or transfer of [the indigenous peoples] from their habitat without their express consent is prohibited.
    keywords: removal
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        item: #362 of 473
          id: Paraguay-0210
      author: Paraguay
       title: Paraguay-0210
        date: None
       words: 34
      flesch: 25
     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.
    keywords: laws
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        item: #363 of 473
          id: Paraguay-0212
      author: Paraguay
       title: Paraguay-0212
        date: None
       words: 42
      flesch: -3
     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.
    keywords: particulars
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        item: #364 of 473
          id: Paraguay-0214
      author: Paraguay
       title: Paraguay-0214
        date: None
       words: 29
      flesch: 43
     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.
    keywords: law
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        item: #365 of 473
          id: Paraguay-0994
      author: Paraguay
       title: Paraguay-0994
        date: None
       words: 10
      flesch: 44
     summary: [The following] are duties and attributions of the Public Ministry:
    keywords: ministry
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        item: #366 of 473
          id: Paraguay-0996
      author: Paraguay
       title: Paraguay-0996
        date: None
       words: 28
      flesch: 33
     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;
    keywords: peoples
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        item: #367 of 473
          id: Peru-0362
      author: Peru
       title: Peru-0362
        date: None
       words: 12
      flesch: 32
     summary: The rural and native communities have legal existence and are corporate entities.
    keywords: entities
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        item: #368 of 473
          id: Peru-0364
      author: Peru
       title: Peru-0364
        date: None
       words: 12
      flesch: 53
     summary: The State respects the cultural identity of the rural and native communities.
    keywords: communities
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        item: #369 of 473
          id: Philippines_1987-0050
      author: Philippines_1987
       title: Philippines_1987-0050
        date: None
       words: 19
      flesch: 27
     summary: The State recognizes and promotes the rights of indigenous cultural communities within the framework of national unity and development.
    keywords: development
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        item: #370 of 473
          id: Philippines_1987-0578
      author: Philippines_1987
       title: Philippines_1987-0578
        date: None
       words: 36
      flesch: 17
     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.
    keywords: state
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        item: #371 of 473
          id: Philippines_1987-0579
      author: Philippines_1987
       title: Philippines_1987-0579
        date: None
       words: 24
      flesch: 23
     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.
    keywords: domain
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        item: #372 of 473
          id: Philippines_1987-0637
      author: Philippines_1987
       title: Philippines_1987-0637
        date: None
       words: 58
      flesch: 2
     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.
    keywords: rights
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        item: #373 of 473
          id: Philippines_1987-0744
      author: Philippines_1987
       title: Philippines_1987-0744
        date: None
       words: 35
      flesch: 41
     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.
    keywords: rights
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        item: #374 of 473
          id: Rwanda_2015-0836
      author: Rwanda_2015
       title: Rwanda_2015-0836
        date: None
       words: 35
      flesch: 26
     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.
    keywords: law
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        item: #375 of 473
          id: Somalia-0068
      author: Somalia
       title: Somalia-0068
        date: None
       words: 21
      flesch: 59
     summary: Circumcision of girls is a cruel and degrading customary practice, and is tantamount to torture. The circumcision of girls is prohibited.
    keywords: circumcision
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        item: #376 of 473
          id: Somalia-0139
      author: Somalia
       title: Somalia-0139
        date: None
       words: 36
      flesch: 29
     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.
    keywords: practices
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        item: #377 of 473
          id: Somalia-0191
      author: Somalia
       title: Somalia-0191
        date: None
       words: 46
      flesch: 29
     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.
    keywords: shari'ah
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        item: #378 of 473
          id: Somalia-0285
      author: Somalia
       title: Somalia-0285
        date: None
       words: 35
      flesch: 16
     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:
    keywords: member
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        item: #379 of 473
          id: Somalia-0293
      author: Somalia
       title: Somalia-0293
        date: None
       words: 14
      flesch: 17
     summary: Relations and dialogue amongst traditional leaders, and the protection and development of traditional law;
    keywords: relations
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        item: #380 of 473
          id: South_Africa-0098
      author: South_Africa
       title: South_Africa-0098
        date: None
       words: 7
      flesch: 30
     summary: This section does not prevent legislation recognising-
    keywords: section
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        item: #381 of 473
          id: South_Africa-0099
      author: South_Africa
       title: South_Africa-0099
        date: None
       words: 15
      flesch: 44
     summary: marriages concluded under any tradition, or a system of religious, personal or family law; or
    keywords: marriages
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        item: #382 of 473
          id: South_Africa-0100
      author: South_Africa
       title: South_Africa-0100
        date: None
       words: 18
      flesch: 28
     summary: systems of personal and family law under any tradition, or adhered to by persons professing a particular religion.
    keywords: systems
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        item: #383 of 473
          id: South_Africa-0387
      author: South_Africa
       title: South_Africa-0387
        date: None
       words: 30
      flesch: 59
     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.
    keywords: law
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        item: #384 of 473
          id: South_Africa-0388
      author: South_Africa
       title: South_Africa-0388
        date: None
       words: 37
      flesch: 50
     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.
    keywords: bill
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        item: #385 of 473
          id: South_Africa-1191
      author: South_Africa
       title: South_Africa-1191
        date: None
       words: 17
      flesch: 25
     summary: A provincial constitution, or constitutional amendment, must not be inconsistent with this Constitution, but may provide for-
    keywords: constitution
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        item: #386 of 473
          id: South_Africa-1193
      author: South_Africa
       title: South_Africa-1193
        date: None
       words: 12
      flesch: 32
     summary: the institution, role, authority and status of a traditional monarch, where applicable.
    keywords: institution
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        item: #387 of 473
          id: South_Africa-1779
      author: South_Africa
       title: South_Africa-1779
        date: None
       words: 18
      flesch: 19
     summary: The institution, status and role of traditional leadership, according to customary law, are recognised, subject to the Constitution.
    keywords: constitution
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        item: #388 of 473
          id: South_Africa-1780
      author: South_Africa
       title: South_Africa-1780
        date: None
       words: 31
      flesch: 25
     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.
    keywords: customs
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        item: #389 of 473
          id: South_Africa-1781
      author: South_Africa
       title: South_Africa-1781
        date: None
       words: 24
      flesch: 41
     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.
    keywords: law
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        item: #390 of 473
          id: South_Africa-1783
      author: South_Africa
       title: South_Africa-1783
        date: None
       words: 21
      flesch: 20
     summary: National legislation may provide for a role for traditional leadership as an institution at local level on matters affecting local communities.
    keywords: communities
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        item: #391 of 473
          id: South_Africa-1784
      author: South_Africa
       title: South_Africa-1784
        date: None
       words: 26
      flesch: 27
     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-
    keywords: law
       cache: South_Africa-1784.txt
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        item: #392 of 473
          id: South_Africa-1785
      author: South_Africa
       title: South_Africa-1785
        date: None
       words: 15
      flesch: 28
     summary: national or provincial legislation may provide for the establishment of houses of traditional leaders; and
    keywords: leaders
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        item: #393 of 473
          id: South_Africa-1786
      author: South_Africa
       title: South_Africa-1786
        date: None
       words: 9
      flesch: 0
     summary: national legislation may establish a council of traditional leaders.
    keywords: leaders
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        item: #394 of 473
          id: South_Africa-2138
      author: South_Africa
       title: South_Africa-2138
        date: None
       words: 12
      flesch: 46
     summary: Indigenous law and customary law, subject to Chapter 12 of the Constitution
    keywords: law
       cache: South_Africa-2138.txt
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        item: #395 of 473
          id: South_Africa-2155
      author: South_Africa
       title: South_Africa-2155
        date: None
       words: 9
      flesch: 28
     summary: Traditional leadership, subject to Chapter 12 of the Constitution
    keywords: constitution
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        item: #396 of 473
          id: South_Africa-2339
      author: South_Africa
       title: South_Africa-2339
        date: None
       words: 52
      flesch: 2
     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-
    keywords: office
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        item: #397 of 473
          id: South_Africa-2432
      author: South_Africa
       title: South_Africa-2432
        date: None
       words: 95
      flesch: -34
     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.
    keywords: council
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        item: #398 of 473
          id: South_Sudan-0032
      author: South_Sudan
       title: South_Sudan-0032
        date: None
       words: 9
      flesch: 75
     summary: The sources of legislation in South Sudan shall be:
    keywords: sources
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        item: #399 of 473
          id: South_Sudan-0035
      author: South_Sudan
       title: South_Sudan-0035
        date: None
       words: 6
      flesch: 73
     summary: customs and traditions of the people;
    keywords: customs
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        item: #400 of 473
          id: South_Sudan-0070
      author: South_Sudan
       title: South_Sudan-0070
        date: None
       words: 5
      flesch: 83
     summary: All levels of government shall:
    keywords: levels
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        item: #401 of 473
          id: South_Sudan-0071
      author: South_Sudan
       title: South_Sudan-0071
        date: None
       words: 35
      flesch: 14
     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;
    keywords: traditions
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        item: #402 of 473
          id: South_Sudan-0072
      author: South_Sudan
       title: South_Sudan-0072
        date: None
       words: 17
      flesch: 55
     summary: enact laws to combat harmful customs and traditions which undermine the dignity and status of women; and
    keywords: laws
       cache: South_Sudan-0072.txt
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        item: #403 of 473
          id: South_Sudan-0149
      author: South_Sudan
       title: South_Sudan-0149
        date: None
       words: 55
      flesch: 43
     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.
    keywords: communities
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        item: #404 of 473
          id: South_Sudan-0705
      author: South_Sudan
       title: South_Sudan-0705
        date: None
       words: 35
      flesch: 45
     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.
    keywords: people
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        item: #405 of 473
          id: South_Sudan-0740
      author: South_Sudan
       title: South_Sudan-0740
        date: None
       words: 8
      flesch: 50
     summary: The Supreme Court shall exercise competences as follows:
    keywords: supreme
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        item: #406 of 473
          id: South_Sudan-0742
      author: South_Sudan
       title: South_Sudan-0742
        date: None
       words: 24
      flesch: 43
     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;
    keywords: law
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        item: #407 of 473
          id: South_Sudan-1043
      author: South_Sudan
       title: South_Sudan-1043
        date: None
       words: 8
      flesch: 71
     summary: The objects of local government shall be to:
    keywords: objects
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        item: #408 of 473
          id: South_Sudan-1052
      author: South_Sudan
       title: South_Sudan-1052
        date: None
       words: 16
      flesch: 29
     summary: acknowledge and incorporate the role of Traditional Authority and customary law in the local government system;
    keywords: system
       cache: South_Sudan-1052.txt
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        item: #409 of 473
          id: South_Sudan-1058
      author: South_Sudan
       title: South_Sudan-1058
        date: None
       words: 17
      flesch: 15
     summary: The institution, status and role of Traditional Authority, according to customary law, are recognised under this Constitution.
    keywords: constitution
       cache: South_Sudan-1058.txt
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        item: #410 of 473
          id: South_Sudan-1059
      author: South_Sudan
       title: South_Sudan-1059
        date: None
       words: 15
      flesch: 28
     summary: Traditional Authority shall function in accordance with this Constitution, the state constitutions and the law.
    keywords: law
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        item: #411 of 473
          id: South_Sudan-1060
      author: South_Sudan
       title: South_Sudan-1060
        date: None
       words: 13
      flesch: 63
     summary: The courts shall apply customary law subject to this Constitution and the law.
    keywords: law
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        item: #412 of 473
          id: South_Sudan-1062
      author: South_Sudan
       title: South_Sudan-1062
        date: None
       words: 25
      flesch: 29
     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.
    keywords: legislation
       cache: South_Sudan-1062.txt
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        item: #413 of 473
          id: South_Sudan-1063
      author: South_Sudan
       title: South_Sudan-1063
        date: None
       words: 22
      flesch: 22
     summary: Legislation at the National and state levels shall provide for the establishment, composition, functions and duties of councils for Traditional Authority leaders.
    keywords: legislation
       cache: South_Sudan-1063.txt
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        item: #414 of 473
          id: South_Sudan-1096
      author: South_Sudan
       title: South_Sudan-1096
        date: None
       words: 34
      flesch: 32
     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.
    keywords: land
       cache: South_Sudan-1096.txt
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        item: #415 of 473
          id: South_Sudan-1097
      author: South_Sudan
       title: South_Sudan-1097
        date: None
       words: 25
      flesch: 29
     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.
    keywords: heritage
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        item: #416 of 473
          id: South_Sudan-1437
      author: South_Sudan
       title: South_Sudan-1437
        date: None
       words: 13
      flesch: 50
     summary: The exclusive executive and legislative powers of a state shall be as follows:
    keywords: executive
       cache: South_Sudan-1437.txt
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        item: #417 of 473
          id: South_Sudan-1467
      author: South_Sudan
       title: South_Sudan-1467
        date: None
       words: 5
      flesch: -1
     summary: Traditional Authority and customary law;
    keywords: law
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        item: #418 of 473
          id: South_Sudan-1479
      author: South_Sudan
       title: South_Sudan-1479
        date: None
       words: 3
      flesch: 62
     summary: Customary law courts.
    keywords: courts
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        item: #419 of 473
          id: Spain-0487
      author: Spain
       title: Spain-0487
        date: None
       words: 44
      flesch: 31
     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.
    keywords: citizens
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        item: #420 of 473
          id: Spain-0621
      author: Spain
       title: Spain-0621
        date: None
       words: 94
      flesch: 18
     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.
    keywords: law
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        item: #421 of 473
          id: Spain-0737
      author: Spain
       title: Spain-0737
        date: None
       words: 39
      flesch: 37
     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).
    keywords: constitution
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        item: #422 of 473
          id: Spain-0739
      author: Spain
       title: Spain-0739
        date: None
       words: 31
      flesch: 41
     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.
    keywords: law
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        item: #423 of 473
          id: Sudan_2019-0269
      author: Sudan_2019
       title: Sudan_2019-0269
        date: None
       words: 17
      flesch: 65
     summary: The state works to combat harmful customs and traditions that reduce the dignity and status of women.
    keywords: women
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        item: #424 of 473
          id: Sudan_2019-0324
      author: Sudan_2019
       title: Sudan_2019-0324
        date: None
       words: 50
      flesch: 63
     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.
    keywords: right
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        item: #425 of 473
          id: Tuvalu_2010-0019
      author: Tuvalu_2010
       title: Tuvalu_2010-0019
        date: None
       words: 30
      flesch: -4
     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.
    keywords: authorities
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        item: #426 of 473
          id: Tuvalu_2010-0116
      author: Tuvalu_2010
       title: Tuvalu_2010-0116
        date: None
       words: 11
      flesch: 87
     summary: Each provision of this Part applies, as far as may be-
    keywords: provision
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        item: #427 of 473
          id: Tuvalu_2010-0119
      author: Tuvalu_2010
       title: Tuvalu_2010-0119
        date: None
       words: 36
      flesch: 45
     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-
    keywords: act
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        item: #428 of 473
          id: Tuvalu_2010-0140
      author: Tuvalu_2010
       title: Tuvalu_2010-0140
        date: None
       words: 30
      flesch: 41
     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-
    keywords: regard
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        item: #429 of 473
          id: Tuvalu_2010-0141
      author: Tuvalu_2010
       title: Tuvalu_2010-0141
        date: None
       words: 16
      flesch: 42
     summary: traditional standards, values and practices, as well as previous laws and judicial decisions, of Tuvalu; and
    keywords: standards
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        item: #430 of 473
          id: Tuvalu_2010-0145
      author: Tuvalu_2010
       title: Tuvalu_2010-0145
        date: None
       words: 51
      flesch: 14
     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.
    keywords: subsection
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        item: #431 of 473
          id: Tuvalu_2010-0534
      author: Tuvalu_2010
       title: Tuvalu_2010-0534
        date: None
       words: 15
      flesch: 67
     summary: in accordance with the personal law, beliefs or customs of any person or group; or
    keywords: accordance
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        item: #432 of 473
          id: Vanuatu_2013-0043
      author: Vanuatu_2013
       title: Vanuatu_2013-0043
        date: None
       words: 30
      flesch: 63
     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;
    keywords: time
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        item: #433 of 473
          id: Vanuatu_2013-0187
      author: Vanuatu_2013
       title: Vanuatu_2013-0187
        date: None
       words: 21
      flesch: 72
     summary: The Malvatumauri Council of Chiefs shall be composed of custom chiefs elected by their peers sitting in District Councils of Chiefs.
    keywords: chiefs
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        item: #434 of 473
          id: Vanuatu_2013-0192
      author: Vanuatu_2013
       title: Vanuatu_2013-0192
        date: None
       words: 34
      flesch: 30
     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.
    keywords: languages
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        item: #435 of 473
          id: Vanuatu_2013-0193
      author: Vanuatu_2013
       title: Vanuatu_2013-0193
        date: None
       words: 24
      flesch: 34
     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.
    keywords: question
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        item: #436 of 473
          id: Vanuatu_2013-0245
      author: Vanuatu_2013
       title: Vanuatu_2013-0245
        date: None
       words: 61
      flesch: 53
     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.
    keywords: law
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        item: #437 of 473
          id: Vanuatu_2013-0264
      author: Vanuatu_2013
       title: Vanuatu_2013-0264
        date: None
       words: 57
      flesch: 24
     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.
    keywords: custom
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        item: #438 of 473
          id: Vanuatu_2013-0267
      author: Vanuatu_2013
       title: Vanuatu_2013-0267
        date: None
       words: 29
      flesch: 51
     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.
    keywords: courts
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        item: #439 of 473
          id: Vanuatu_2013-0362
      author: Vanuatu_2013
       title: Vanuatu_2013-0362
        date: None
       words: 16
      flesch: 53
     summary: All land in the Republic of Vanuatu belongs to the indigenous custom owners and their descendants.
    keywords: descendants
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        item: #440 of 473
          id: Vanuatu_2013-0364
      author: Vanuatu_2013
       title: Vanuatu_2013-0364
        date: None
       words: 19
      flesch: 80
     summary: The rules of custom shall form the basis of ownership and use of land in the Republic of Vanuatu.
    keywords: vanuatu
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        item: #441 of 473
          id: Vanuatu_2013-0372
      author: Vanuatu_2013
       title: Vanuatu_2013-0372
        date: None
       words: 23
      flesch: 10
     summary: Parliament by enactment shall formalise the recognition of appropriate customary institutions or procedures to resolve land ownership or any disputes over custom land.
    keywords: land
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        item: #442 of 473
          id: Vanuatu_2013-0373
      author: Vanuatu_2013
       title: Vanuatu_2013-0373
        date: None
       words: 17
      flesch: 25
     summary: Parliament may recognise an institution as a customary institution by enactment for the purposes of subarticle (1).
    keywords: institution
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        item: #443 of 473
          id: Vanuatu_2013-0374
      author: Vanuatu_2013
       title: Vanuatu_2013-0374
        date: None
       words: 50
      flesch: 22
     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.
    keywords: law
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        item: #444 of 473
          id: Vanuatu_2013-0376
      author: Vanuatu_2013
       title: Vanuatu_2013-0376
        date: None
       words: 38
      flesch: 43
     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.
    keywords: dispute
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        item: #445 of 473
          id: Vanuatu_2013-0379
      author: Vanuatu_2013
       title: Vanuatu_2013-0379
        date: None
       words: 18
      flesch: 47
     summary: The consent required under subarticle (1) shall be given unless the transaction is prejudicial to the interests of-
    keywords: consent
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        item: #446 of 473
          id: Vanuatu_2013-0380
      author: Vanuatu_2013
       title: Vanuatu_2013-0380
        date: None
       words: 8
      flesch: 82
     summary: the custom owner or owners of the land;
    keywords: land
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        item: #447 of 473
          id: Vanuatu_2013-0381
      author: Vanuatu_2013
       title: Vanuatu_2013-0381
        date: None
       words: 10
      flesch: 61
     summary: the indigenous citizen where he is not the custom owner;
    keywords: owner
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        item: #448 of 473
          id: Vanuatu_2013-0387
      author: Vanuatu_2013
       title: Vanuatu_2013-0387
        date: None
       words: 31
      flesch: 22
     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.
    keywords: islands
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        item: #449 of 473
          id: Vanuatu_2013-0388
      author: Vanuatu_2013
       title: Vanuatu_2013-0388
        date: None
       words: 20
      flesch: 31
     summary: When redistributing land in accordance with subarticle (1), the Government shall give priority to ethnic, linguistic, customary and geographical ties.
    keywords: ties
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        item: #450 of 473
          id: Vanuatu_2013-0429
      author: Vanuatu_2013
       title: Vanuatu_2013-0429
        date: None
       words: 56
      flesch: 20
     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.
    keywords: vanuatu
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        item: #451 of 473
          id: Vanuatu_2013-0430
      author: Vanuatu_2013
       title: Vanuatu_2013-0430
        date: None
       words: 17
      flesch: 70
     summary: Customary law shall continue to have effect as part of the law of the Republic of Vanuatu.
    keywords: law
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        item: #452 of 473
          id: Zimbabwe-0019
      author: Zimbabwe
       title: Zimbabwe-0019
        date: None
       words: 26
      flesch: 30
     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.
    keywords: law
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        item: #453 of 473
          id: Zimbabwe-0203
      author: Zimbabwe
       title: Zimbabwe-0203
        date: None
       words: 32
      flesch: 28
     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.
    keywords: knowledge
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        item: #454 of 473
          id: Zimbabwe-0280
      author: Zimbabwe
       title: Zimbabwe-0280
        date: None
       words: 32
      flesch: 63
     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.
    keywords: law
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        item: #455 of 473
          id: Zimbabwe-0575
      author: Zimbabwe
       title: Zimbabwe-0575
        date: None
       words: 25
      flesch: 46
     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.
    keywords: infringement
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        item: #456 of 473
          id: Zimbabwe-1268
      author: Zimbabwe
       title: Zimbabwe-1268
        date: None
       words: 16
      flesch: 47
     summary: Judicial authority derives from the people of Zimbabwe and is vested in the courts, which comprise--
    keywords: comprise-
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        item: #457 of 473
          id: Zimbabwe-1275
      author: Zimbabwe
       title: Zimbabwe-1275
        date: None
       words: 5
      flesch: 83
     summary: the customary law courts; and
    keywords: law
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        item: #458 of 473
          id: Zimbabwe-1278
      author: Zimbabwe
       title: Zimbabwe-1278
        date: None
       words: 6
      flesch: 17
     summary: The judiciary of Zimbabwe consists of--
    keywords: judiciary
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        item: #459 of 473
          id: Zimbabwe-1284
      author: Zimbabwe
       title: Zimbabwe-1284
        date: None
       words: 19
      flesch: 49
     summary: persons presiding over magistrates courts, customary law courts and other courts established by or under an Act of Parliament.
    keywords: courts
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        item: #460 of 473
          id: Zimbabwe-1381
      author: Zimbabwe
       title: Zimbabwe-1381
        date: None
       words: 13
      flesch: 37
     summary: An Act of Parliament may provide for the establishment, composition and jurisdiction of--
    keywords: jurisdiction
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        item: #461 of 473
          id: Zimbabwe-1383
      author: Zimbabwe
       title: Zimbabwe-1383
        date: None
       words: 13
      flesch: 30
     summary: customary law courts whose jurisdiction consists primarily in the application of customary law;
    keywords: law
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        item: #462 of 473
          id: Zimbabwe-1397
      author: Zimbabwe
       title: Zimbabwe-1397
        date: None
       words: 43
      flesch: 29
     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.
    keywords: court
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        item: #463 of 473
          id: Zimbabwe-2197
      author: Zimbabwe
       title: Zimbabwe-2197
        date: None
       words: 13
      flesch: 30
     summary: The institution, status and role of traditional leaders under customary law are recognised.
    keywords: institution
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        item: #464 of 473
          id: Zimbabwe-2198
      author: Zimbabwe
       title: Zimbabwe-2198
        date: None
       words: 30
      flesch: 35
     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.
    keywords: community
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        item: #465 of 473
          id: Zimbabwe-2200
      author: Zimbabwe
       title: Zimbabwe-2200
        date: None
       words: 3
      flesch: 6
     summary: Traditional leaders must--
    keywords: leaders
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        item: #466 of 473
          id: Zimbabwe-2202
      author: Zimbabwe
       title: Zimbabwe-2202
        date: None
       words: 27
      flesch: 27
     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
    keywords: leadership
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        item: #467 of 473
          id: Zimbabwe-2210
      author: Zimbabwe
       title: Zimbabwe-2210
        date: None
       words: 11
      flesch: 26
     summary: Traditional leaders have the following functions within their areas of jurisdiction--
    keywords: jurisdiction-
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        item: #468 of 473
          id: Zimbabwe-2215
      author: Zimbabwe
       title: Zimbabwe-2215
        date: None
       words: 14
      flesch: 59
     summary: to resolve disputes amongst people in their communities in accordance with customary law; and
    keywords: law
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        item: #469 of 473
          id: Zimbabwe-2221
      author: Zimbabwe
       title: Zimbabwe-2221
        date: None
       words: 23
      flesch: 40
     summary: An Act of Parliament must provide for the following, in accordance with the prevailing culture, customs, traditions and practices of the communities concerned--
    keywords: act
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        item: #470 of 473
          id: Zimbabwe-2570
      author: Zimbabwe
       title: Zimbabwe-2570
        date: None
       words: 29
      flesch: 51
     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;
    keywords: land
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        item: #471 of 473
          id: Zimbabwe-2574
      author: Zimbabwe
       title: Zimbabwe-2574
        date: None
       words: 15
      flesch: 50
     summary: customary law means the customary law of any section or community of Zimbabwe's people;
    keywords: law
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        item: #472 of 473
          id: Zimbabwe-2595
      author: Zimbabwe
       title: Zimbabwe-2595
        date: None
       words: 2
      flesch: 120
     summary: law means--
    keywords: law
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        item: #473 of 473
          id: Zimbabwe-2598
      author: Zimbabwe
       title: Zimbabwe-2598
        date: None
       words: 21
      flesch: 32
     summary: any unwritten law in force in Zimbabwe, including customary law; and lawful, lawfully, legal and legally are to be construed accordingly;
    keywords: law
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