ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in this book. The book aims to elicit the systemization of jural phenomena in the folk system of the Tiv. It also aims to give a sociological explanation, in more general terms, which will serve as an analytical system for comparing Tiv jural institutions with those of other societies. Two folk systems are operative in Tivland: one is the systemization of jural phenomena by the Tiv themselves in their own language; the other is the systemization in English of roughly the same phenomena by administrative officers. The English folk system occupies an unduly large place in the social field because the ultimate political power in the colonial society is thought by all to lie with the British. The folk system of the British covers two sorts of tribunals, which they term respectively native courts and magistrates' courts.
