SECONDORY SOURCES OF LAW

Term used by legal writers to

refer to a number of early legal

textbooks that are excepted

Malay customary law ( Adat )
from the rule that textbooks (and
all books other than statute or

Non-Malay customary law law report ) are not treated as

Chinese customory law BOOKS OF

authorities
CUSTOM
hindu customary law AUTHORITHY
treated by the courts as

Customs of Orang Asli in

authoritative statements of the

Malaysia Peninsula law as it was at the time at which

they were written

SECONDORY SOURCES
Native Custom in Sabah
importance : reflect how the law

and Sarawak treated as authoritative statements

is being viewed of the law as it is at the present

time ( unless it is shown that the law

has changed )

CONVENTION
Generic Term
TREATIES " international conventions , whether general / particular "
principal source of Public International Law CONVENTIONS AND
as a source of law
The Vienna Convention defines 'treaty' as '

TREATIES generic term " convention " = generic term " treaty "
an international law , whether embodied in a

single instrument or in two or more related

Specific Term
instruments and whatever its particular
the term "convention" regularly employed for bilateral

designation agreements in the last century

now , it is generally used for formal multilateral treaties

with a broad number of parties