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Which one of the following jurists has rejected customary law as law?

For "Austin", law is a command of the sovereign backed by a sanction, so a custom is not law until it is adopted by the courts or the legislature and enforced by the…

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Which one of the following jurists has rejected customary law as law?

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For "Austin", law is a command of the sovereign backed by a sanction, so a custom is not law until it is adopted by the courts or the legislature and enforced by the sovereign; until then it is only positive morality. Savigny, by contrast, treated custom as the main source of law, growing out of the common consciousness of the people, and neither Kant nor Keeton rejected custom as law in this way.

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