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In a former British colony, a statute provides that customary law applies to personal law matters only if it is 'not repugnant to natural justice, equity, and good conscience.' A woman challenges a customary rule that denies her the right to inherit her deceased father's property on the ground that she is married, asserting that the rule violates gender equality. Under the classic repugnancy test as developed in post-colonial common law Africa, what is the most accurate statement about how a court would likely approach this challenge?

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Legal Pluralism and Sources of Law in Post-Colonial States

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Identification and hierarchy of state law, customary law, religious law, and received colonial law

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Niyonzima v Mutaganzwa

[2009] 1 EA 64 (SCA)

good law
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Uganda
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Whether a customary land interest that predates formal land titles remains valid and can be enforced against a registered proprietor under the Land Act.
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Epuru Sudhakar v Government of Andhra Pradesh

(2006) 6 SCC 560

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India
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Whether the state's decision to grant mining rights on land traditionally used by tribal communities violated their rights under the Fifth Schedule and the Forest Rights Act.
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Sawhoyamaxa Indigenous Community v Paraguay

2006 Inter-Am Ct HR (Ser C) No 146

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Inter-American System (Paraguay)
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Whether Paraguay violated the right to property (Article 21) of the American Convention on Human Rights by failing to recognize indigenous communal property and to return ancestral lands.
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Nguyen v Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration)

[2002] 3 FC 394 (CA)

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Canada
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Whether the Indian Act provisions that discriminated on the basis of gender in determining status were unconstitutional under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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