Adultery judgments in customary courts in Botswana reflect changing everyday practices and normative understandings both with regard to marriage and broader ideas of gender equality. These changed perceptions parallel a worldwide shift in the legal understanding of adultery from being a crime to a civil offense and then, more recently, a non offense. Social change movements and judicial reforms responsive to both regional and international gender and judicial activism have arguably influenced recent judgments in the Botswana High Court regarding adultery. Although the country's customary courts continue to recognize adultery as an offense (known as “breaking the yard”), they too follow customary law as “living law”; that is, they are responsive to considerations of equity and quotidian practices that parallel wider ideologically critical movements, and historical processes of judicial innovation and legal reform elsewhere.

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重新定义了通奸：在博茨瓦纳将习惯法中的衡平决定更改为“生存法”

博茨瓦纳习惯法院的通奸判决反映了关于婚姻和更广泛的性别平等观念的日新月异的惯例和规范性理解。这些观念的转变与全球范围内对通奸的法律理解从世界范围内的犯罪转变为民事犯罪再到最近的非犯罪转变是平行的。响应区域和国际性别以及司法行动主义的社会变革运动和司法改革可以说影响了博茨瓦纳高等法院最近关于通奸的判决。尽管该国的习惯法院继续将通奸定为罪行（称为“闯入院子”），但它们也遵循习惯法作为“生活法”；那是，