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(retro style gauntlets that were used to restrain convicted fellons) COLONIAL JUSTICE has three parts Ø The first examines the structure and personnel of the court system. Ø Part II looks at various social policies related to criminal justice Ø The third part assesses crime, offering statistics and examples attesting to a high amount of frontier violence and theft

Support for paupers was a constant problem, with widows and children being reduced to extreme circumstances upon the death of their bread-winning husbands and men becoming invalids due to old age, injury or war wounds

Distress victims became so numerous by around 1830 that the district magistrates discontinued the automatic pauper’s list and began voting on petitions individually ([]) (political commic on the process of colonial justice)

In 1900 the British imperialists established the so-called "repugnancy test" justice policy in Nigeria. In both colonial and post-colonial periods, Nigerian justice officials have used the policy to subjugate the country's native justice systems to the imposed English-style justice system

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The repugnancy

test of the evidence Act of the laws of Nigeria states that a court

should not enforce as law a custom which is repugnant to

natural justice, equity and good conscience. Therefore,

no customary, law should obstruct the rules of natural

justice like the right to be heard, liberty and freedom of assosiation

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Girish, Marsha. "D A I J I W O R L D." D A I J I W O R L D. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Nov. 2010. [].

"Images from the Native Perspective." Welcome to Hanksville. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Nov. 2010. <http://www.hanksville.org/sand

"Colonial Justice: Justice, Morality and Crime in the Niagara District 1791-1849.." College of Behavioral and Social Sciences - University of Maryland - College of Behavioral & Social Sciences. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Nov. 2010. []

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