Legal Status of Customery Marriages in Tanzania

UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM FACULTY OF LAW

LW 400 : LL.BDISSERTATION. TOPIC : THE LEGAL STATUS OF CUSTOMARY MARRIAGES IN TANZANIA CANDIDATE : REG. NO. : KISILWA, ZAHARANI 36391/T.2002

NAME OF SUPERVISOR

: MR. MSHANA, ES.

A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE AWARD OF THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF LAWS (LL.B) OF THE UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM FOR THE YEAR 2005/2006.

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COPYRIGHT No one is allowed to report, reproduce or transmit in any form or by any means, electronically or mechanically, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system in respect of this dissertation or part there of, without prior permission from the author or the University of Dar es salaam.

Copyright © 2005

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DECLARATION I, KISILWA, ZAHARANI, do hereby declare to the best of my knowledge that this work whether in part or in full has never before been submitted in any University for any award.

Researcher

……………………………… KISILWA, ZAHARANI

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I have read and approved this paper for examination

RESEARCH SUPERVISOR

……………………………….. MR. MSHANA, ES.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I, the researcher, would like to express his heartfelt gratitude to Mr. Mshana, ES. Of the Faculty of Law, University of Dar es salaam for his unrelenting supervising assistance without which this work would hardly be a success.

I further wish to advance my thanks to Mr. W.M.J Shonga of the Court of Appeal of Tanzania [C.A.T] for his invaluable support, and particularly for a fully granted permission to use the Court Library for materials pertinent to this research. I also feel indebted to the District Registrar for the High Court of Tanzania, Mwanza for providing through his officials the details necessary for this research as well as provision of various materials pertaining to the study. The same thanks should go to the District Magistrate of Mwanza District Court for awarding...