Consumer Credit and Customary Law in Nigeria

Philemon Iko-Ojo Omede ()
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Philemon Iko-Ojo Omede: Veritas University

Chapter Chapter 4 in Nigerian Consumer Credit, 2022, pp 127-147 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Customary lawCustomary law comprises of customs acknowledged by members of a community as binding amongst them. Section 258(1) of the Evidence Act 2011 defines ‘custom’ as ‘a rule which, in a particular district, has, from long usage, obtained the force of law’.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-11740-4_4

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