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Inserenda.
Custom
It may be stiled a Custom allowed:[a] the other, a
Custom unallow'd. A custom for which the force
of Law has been demanded and refused, a custom
disallow'd.
NOTE [a]
The Author of the Commentaries speaks nearly in this
sense of the allowance of a Custom: Allowance
in French from to allow in French allouer seems to
come from a and lay, law. In many instances
the y of the ancient French has been
changed into u in the modern.
A Custom then has been allow'd wher understand
by Common Law] when f in a view to ensure
the observance of it in future instances, punishment
has been annext in some past instance
to the non observance of it in some past instance.
Identifier: | JB/028/126/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 28.
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unwritten law king no wrong custom & maxim |
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] propatria [britannia motif]]] |
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