 | 1905 - 1008 ページ
...universal rule of the whole kingdom, and form the common law in its strict and more usual signification; particular customs, which for the most part affect only the inhabitants of particular districts." 1 Bl. Com. 67. The books are replete with decisions illustrating and applying the general doctrine... | |
 | John Chipman Gray - 1909 - 360 ページ
...rule of the whole kingdom, and form the Common Law, in its stricter and more usual signification. 2. Particular customs, which. for the most part affect only the inhabitants of particular districts. 3. Certain particular Laws, which by custom are adopted and used by some particular courts of pretty... | |
 | Charles Erehart Chadman - 1912 - 624 ページ
...rule of the whole kingdom, and form the common law, in its stricter and more usual signification. 2. Particular customs ; which, for the most part, affect only the inhabitants of particular districts. 3. Certain particular laws; which, by custom, are adopted and used by some particular courts of pretty... | |
 | Frederic William Maitland, Francis Charles Montague - 1915 - 256 ページ
...rule of the whole kingdom, and form the common law, in its stricter and more usual signification. 2. Particular customs; which, for the most part, affect only the inhabitants of particular districts. 3. Certain particular laws; which, by custom, are adopted and used by some particular courts, of pretty... | |
 | Frederic William Maitland, Francis Charles Montague - 1915 - 256 ページ
...rule of the whole kingdom, and form the common law, in its stricter and more usual signification. 2. Particular customs; which, for the most part, affect only the inhabitants of particular districts. 3. Certain particular laws; which, by custom, are adopted and used by some particular courts, of pretty... | |
 | James George Frazer - 1918 - 616 ページ
...capable as the rest of his brethren to help himself. Other authors have indeed given a much stranger reason for this custom, as if the lord of the fee had antiently a right of concubinage with his tenant's wife on her weddingnight ; and that therefore the... | |
 | Benjamin Nathan Cardozo - 1921 - 218 ページ
...rule of the whole Kingdom, and form the Common Law, in its stricter and more usual signification. (2) Particular customs, which for the most part affect only the inhabitants of particular districts. (3) Certain particular laws, which by custom are adopted and used by some particular courts of pretty... | |
 | Frazer, Sir James George FRS, FBA - 1923 - 586 ページ
...capable as the rest of his brethren to help himself. Other authors have indeed given a much stranger reason for this custom, as if the lord of the fee had antiently a right of concubinage with his tenant's wife on her wedding-night; and that therefore the... | |
 | Alfred William Brian Simpson - 1987 - 458 ページ
...(1716), p. 22. whole kingdom, and form the common law, in its stricter and more usual signification. 2. Particular customs which for the most part affect only the inhabitants of particular districts. 3. Certain particular laws; which by custom are adopted and used by some particular courts, of pretty... | |
 | Alison Dundes Renteln, Alan Dundes - 1995 - 620 ページ
...rule of the whole kingdom and form the common law, in its stricter and more usual signification. 2. Particular customs which for the most part affect only the inhabitants of particular districts. 3. Certain particular laws; which by custom are adopted and used by some particular courts, of pretty... | |
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General customs; which are the universal rule of the whole kingdom, and form the common law, in its stricter and more usual signification. 2. Particular customs ; which for the most part affect only the inhabitants of particular districts. 3. Certain... 
