Chapter
Medicine Murders and Blood Money
Abstract
Abstract
This chapter examines the tensions inherent in administration of imperial justice through the lens of both official discourse in the colonies and the jurisprudence of the Imperial Appeal Courts. It probes the fault lines in the ideological and jurisprudential debate over the scope of customary law in criminal trials, particularly those involving ritual murder. Officials within the imperial judicial establishment …
Authors
Ibhawoh B
Book title
Imperial Justice
Pagination
pp. 87-120
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Publication Date
October 3, 2013
DOI
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199664849.003.0004