The trier of fact and law adjudicates between closely related people from communities as opposed to strangers in commerce. Judgments stress the importance of living together in generous, loving kindness, mutual helpfulness and reciprocity. Evidence suggests that 'African law demonstrates that all men, because they live in society, have some theory of rules of justice which they believe arise from reason itself; Gluckman's evidence suggests that Africans may well have formulated, in embryonic form at least, a theory of natural justice coming from human kindness itself.'