Law versus Medical Science: Competition between Legal and Biological Paternity in an Egyptian Civil Court
Abstract The 1942 lawsuit that is translated, annotated and analyzed in this article raises questions about the judicial acceptability of new types of evidence developed by modern science. A husband who suspected that his wife was carrying the child of her lover asked the ahlī court of summary justi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2011
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Islamic law and society
Year: 2011, Volume: 18, Issue: 2, Pages: 219-249 |
| Further subjects: | B
SHARI'A AND CIVIL COURTS
B Adultery B PATERNITY (BIOLOGICAL, LEGAL) B ISLAMIC LAW VS. MODERN SCIENCE B EXPERT WITNESSES B PATERNITY TESTS |
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