[HN Gopher] Somali Law ___________________________________________________________________ Somali Law Author : Tomte Score : 51 points Date : 2022-10-29 20:14 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.daviddfriedman.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.daviddfriedman.com) | pie_flavor wrote: | Note that a more recent edition of this page can be found here | (warning, docx download): | http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Legal%20Systems/Somali%20Law.d... | | The index of updated docx chapters: | http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Legal%20Systems/LegalSystemsCo... | | The index of HTML chapters this link is for: | http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Course_Pages/legal_sy... | | My favorite chapters are probably the ones on Irish and Jewish | law. | jiscariot wrote: | I read much of this a while back and really enjoyed the section | on "pirate law". | | http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Legal%20Systems/LegalSystemsCo... | O__________O wrote: | Related Wikipedia on Pirate Code: | | https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_code | bewaretheirs wrote: | This is part of his "Legal Systems Very Different From Ours" | which was originally a college-level course and is also available | as a book. | | See also: | | http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Course_Pages/legal_sy... | | It was subsequently parodied here: | | https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/03/30/legal-systems-very-dif... | texaslonghorn5 wrote: | > https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/03/30/legal-systems-very- | dif... | | > Finally the authorities handed down a change to the system: | the plaintiff and defendant would agree on two lawyers to | conduct the trial. Then the judge would flip a coin, and one of | the two would be assigned at random to each party. | | This seems very interesting...I wonder what the game theoretic | optimal strategy is and how the analysis would change if | | 1. the coin decides who picks first | | 2. the coin had a known bias | | and so on. | AS37 wrote: | > If a fact is disputed, or supported by fewer than three | witnesses, parties may be required to swear one of several | different oaths to the truth of their position. One such oath | consists of the oath-giver swearing by his marriage; if it later | turns out that his oath was false, the marriage is dissolved. | | I hate to think what happens if you swear on your mother's | life... | amelius wrote: | Better swear on your opponent's life ... | fit2rule wrote: | TEP_Kim_Il_Sung wrote: | https://archive.ph/mMi2e | kepler1 wrote: | Isn't it interesting how the social or traditional rules of a | people, the software, if you will, are a big factor in whether | the country will be successful or not? ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-10-29 23:00 UTC)