[HN Gopher] Somali Law
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       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...
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       | The index of HTML chapters this link is for:
       | http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Course_Pages/legal_sy...
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       | 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:
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       | 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
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         | 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?
        
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