ABSTRACT
In order to obviate this anomaly, when both parties in a case are Bedouin it is usual for the police or administrative officer on the spot to use his discretion whether the official code shall be employed, or whether it shall be waived entirely in favour of the code understood and approved of both parties. In many cases the rigid application of the official code would entail real injustice to Arab litigants, and would defeat its own ends by prolonging, instead of putting an end to, the ill-feeling from which the litigation arose.
