Bona fides , Roman values and legal science

Paper delivered at International Symposium "Contemporary Law, Legal Science and Justinian's Codification" Skopje and Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia 20-23 October 2003, organised by the Faculty of Law "Justinianus Primus" of "Ss Cyril and Methodius" University Skopje. 2 Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996. 3 S 39(2) "When interpreting any legislation, and when developing the common law or customary law, every court, tribunal or forum must promote the spirit, purport and objects of the Bill of Rights." 4 Historial information relative to indigenous law is minimal as a result of the oral tradition of early African populations. For information on indigenous law see Bennett A Sourcebook of African Customary Law for South Africa (1991). ________________________________________________________________