Now there was the business of the lowland boy, and the almost perverse use of clan law to accommodate the act.

If one of my kin does me harm, clan law allows me the right to challenge.

This will be taken as a clan law.

As I interpreted clan law, that made you clan responsibility.

In clan law I am called your father, because you are my responsibility.

As a result, the whole legal system formed a primitive legal pluralism of court law and clan law.

The legal structure in Somalia is divided along three lines: civil law, religious law, and traditional clan law.

The clan laws are not so benevolent.

Is he maimed, unworthy in some manner by clan laws?

In the absence of functioning governmental institutions and regulations, they were supplanted by the private sector and clan law.