Zweigert and Kotz (1977): “The words suggest an intellectual activity with law as its object and comparison as its process.” The comparison of the different legal systems of the world. Kamba (1974): “Signifies the systematic application of the comparative technique to the field of law. It is the study of, and research in, law by the systematic comparison of two or more legal systems; or of parts, branches or aspects of two or more legal systems.”