(2) The demand for refund of bride price as a condition precedent to the dissolution of customary marriage contravenes articles 31(3)and 32(2) of the Constitution and is null and void. (3) The demand and payment of bride price dehumanises the woman in a marriage as it portrays her as a chattel that can be sold in market and subjects her to potential humiliation, cruel, torture and degrading treatment in contravention of articles 24, 31(1)and 32(2) of the Constitution. (4) The regime of bride price subjects a woman to slavery and servitude when it makes it impossible for her to move out of an abusive marriage long after it has irretrievably broken down. This is contravention of articles 25 and 44(b) of the Constitution. (5) Each party to this petition will bear its own costs. Dated at Kampala this……26th ………day of….March…….2010. Hon. Justice A. Twinomujuni JUSTICE OF APPEAL. [1]The Bukedi by-law states that; “The maximum bride price which may be paid or demanded shall be five head of cattle, five goats and twenty shillings.” A person receiving or demanding bride price in excess of this commits an offence and is liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred and fifty shillings.” 65