Customary law in Ethiopia

However, there is agreement that it plays a fundamental role of integrating clans, promoting peace, and mediating between human and divine worlds.

The gumi gaayo (meeting of the multitude) held in every eight years and provides promulgations, adaptation or repealing the seera law and aadaa customs.

[3][5] Clansmen are expected to settle issues friendly at meetings, and household headset involve arbitrate their views, with speaking experience are respected.

The council rely on largely persuasion and the rhetorical threat of sanctions including fines and corporal punishments, which is not often implemented.

Abat used when justice was found to be insufficient for community and the government inability to counter crime and insecurity prevailed in the region.

[7][8] Depending on the area and population, the community elect seven abats acting as lawmakers, arbitrary and executive powers.

[9] The community decide to elect Yegobez Aleqa for maintenance of revolt because of the burden imposed by the government found incapable.

Yegobez Aleqa empowered to lead elders in the community, and maintains peace and order, reinstitute property to those dispossessed or forcibly grabbed by special power.

The office of chiqa shum is hereditary title in Wello, while it has privilege rotating in every year among all rest holders in the Gojjam and Gondar region, and in northern Shewa.

The family arbitrator is useful for settling issues by bringing opposing parties together for mediation before they are heard by regular courts that probably lack cautious measures and potentially damage relationships.

[24] The primary duty of the institution is to track down the offender who committed a crime and impose retributive action against the person or a close relative.