At the oral cultural background of no written words or paying little attention to the written words,the Oral African Law pays much attention to oral procedure on the presentation form,stresses on external ceremony,hands down oath and trial by ordeal.

• 在无文字或不注重文字的口头文化背景下,口头法在表现形式上重口头程序,强调外在仪式,流传“誓言”与“神判”。