Droit coutumier et régulation dans la société kabyle de la fin du XIXe siècle

Abstract

This work is based on the customary law, mainly the qanuns or customaries, which constitute a part of the special and specific custom of each village, to study the social relationships in the traditional kabyle society. Breaking with the conceptions, which reduce its relating activity to the only penal part, the purpose of this work is to show that the kabyle village sets himself up as a full political entity, imposing its code and its right on its territory, reflecting thus the spacial dimension of an authority. This dimension is embodied by an active and representative authority, in this case the assembly of the adult men of the village or the tajmaɛt.

Keywords

• Assembly (tajmaɛt)
• Customaries (qanun-s)
• Customary Law
• Kabylie
• Regulation