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The Constitutional Court of Korea held that an ancient customary law allowing the wife to inherit the property solely when a married eldest son, who is not the head of the household, dies without children or grandchildren does not violate the Constitution. This decision concerns a customary law applied to the inheritance of property by a person who died in 1919. The revised Korean Civil Code abolished this customary law through its enactment and enforcement. In Korea, customary law is considered law enforced in practice without a

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