The Legal Pluralism and Property Transactions in Zanzibar

The study aims to describe the roles played by social structures on sustaining legal pluralism practices (LPPs) experienced on real property transactions (RPTs) in Zanzibar. The study use descriptive statistics to describe the risks associated with property transactions under legal pluralism environment, simple linear regression analysis to assess probability of occurrence of transaction failure risks (TFRs) and analyzing moderating effect of social structures which allowed measuring the strength of interaction of dependent and independent variables with the presences moderating variables. The study confirm legal pluralism (LP) and their related practices posse substantial risks on property transactions including legal and development, title and financial risk. Further finding show Social Structures have significant roles on RPTs and described on areas of transactional, decision, information, marketing and financing roles which enable to have constant flow of information, finance and title which help to moderate transaction failure risks and smooth line transaction.