The answer is C. Congress in 1866 passed a law making the metric system legal in the United States. It is the only ...

But, how many feet in a mile? It’s one of those little things we’ve always wondered about. We get to the bottom of this question and dive into the historical reasons behind the number of feet in a ...

Hillger says that even countries that have fully adopted the metric system also measure certain things in U.S. customary units or their own local system of measurement. “Even in your best metric ...

The battle over a deceased man’s estate got heated as two women claimed to be married to him in customary and civil laws, respectively. The appellant, who was in a civil marriage with the ...

The reasons are largely historical and cultural, but efforts are ongoing to adopt Celsius. The same holds true for metric vs the US customary system of measurement. The main reason for sticking to the ...

Gossage died in January 2001. Jonathan Gossage said his father felt the transition to metric was important for Canada, as the Imperial system an “unnecessary bottleneck” in international trade.

In South Africa, the definition of a customary marriage is one that is negotiated, celebrated or concluded according to any of the systems of indigenous African customary law which exist in South ...

Here’s a good trivia question: What are the only 3 countries in the world that do not use the metric system? Everybody knows the good ol’ hard headed USA is in there, but the other two? How about ...

Several African countries have, over recent years, started recognising traditional justice mechanisms operating alongside the formal justice system. In some settings, customary courts are formally ...