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Common Law
and universal reception throughout the realm. The authenticity of these customs, rules, and maxims rests entirely upon reception and usage, as declared by our judges, who are the sworn depositaries and interpreters of our law. This Common Law … the statute law. It depends for its authority upon the recognition given by our Law Courts to principles, customs, and rules of conduct previously existing among the people. This recognition was formerly enshrined in the memory of
Away-going, or Way-going crops
the contact, but, where that is not the case, he is generally entitled to do so by local custom or usage; such custom or usage has been held to be reasonable and valid, see Wigglesworth v. Dallison,
Common quality
Rana community who is not an original native of Ahmedabad has to prove his credentials according to the custom and usage of that community to get admitted into that community cannot introduce a personal element, Ahmedabad Rana Caste Association
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of Orissa, AIR 1964 SC 1793 (1797). It includes any Ordinance, order bye-law, rule, regulation, notification, custom or usage having in the territory of India the force of law, Sant Ram v. Labh Singh, AIR 1965 SC … sufficiently formulated or defined to be observed uniformly by the whole of a class it may become a custom; or it may be imposed on all individuals who consent or are unable to resist its application and
Traditions
Traditions, Traditions are doctrines, customs, practices, beliefs and usages which are handed down from generation to generation. One of the traditions of the … Traditions, Traditions are doctrines, customs, practices, beliefs and usages which are handed down from generation to generation. One of the traditions of the Allahabad High Court, which
Water and watercourse
a profit a prendre and is not, apparently, a subject of prescription, but it may be acquired by custom or usage. See Halsb. L.E., tit. 'Customs and Usages,' and Gateward's case, (1607) 6 Rep 59. So, also,
Optimus interpres rerum usus
Optimus interpres rerum usus [Lat.], the best interpreter of things is usage. --2 Inst. 282, (Custom is the best interpreter of things.) See Broom's Leg. Max. Similarly Optimus legum interpres
Way
Act, 1832 (2 & 3 Wm. 4, c. 71), s. 2, it is enacted that no claim by custom, prescription, or grant, to any way or other easement, or to any watercourse or the use of any … Bridges are public highways. See BRIDGE. A private right of way may be claimed by prescription and immemorial usage; thus where the inhabitants of a particular hamlet, or the owners or occupiers of a particular close or
Freight
but in the absence of any formal stipulation on the subject it would be due according to the custom or usage of trade. In the absence of an express contact to the contrary, the entire freight is
Broker
exchange, or promissory notes, railway scrip, goods, stocks, ships, or cargoes; or in procuring freights or charter-parties. By custom or usage brokers may become personally liable on contracts made by them on behalf of principals where the
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