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Exogamy

The custom or tribal law which prohibits marriage between members of the same tribe marriage outside of the tribe opposed

custom made

made specially for a specific purpose of articles of manufacture Contrasted with mass produced standardized

Copyhold

titles. In the previous edition of this work, copyhold was described as a base tenure founded upon immemorial custom and usage; its origin is undiscoverable, but it is said to be the ancient villeinage modified and changed

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Banker

Banker, one who receives money to be drawn out again as the owner has occasion for it, the customer being lender, and the banker borrower, with the superadded obligation of honouring the customer's cheques up to the

Goodwill

property employed therein, incon-sequence of the general public patronage and encouragement which it receives from constant or habitual customers; see Trego v. Hunt, 1896, AC 7. It is considered a subject of sale and part of and

Gavelkind

Gavelkind. A mode or rule of descent by custom abolished by the Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 45(1)(a), in the case of all deaths after 1925

Goods

bought and sold; and (c) capable of being transmitted, transferred delivered, stored and possessed. If a software whether customized or non-customised satisfies these attributes, the same would be goods. Unlike the American Courts, the Supreme Court of

Import

be complete for certain purposes say, sales tax purposes on their clearance after assessment of duties at the customs barrier but it is not complete in a real sense. Even the warehouse to which the goods are

Smuggling

consumption without paying the duties chargeable upon them. It may be committed indifferently either upon the excise or customs revenue. The crime of importing or exporting illegal articles or articles on which duties have not been paid,

Tariff

drawn up usually in alphabetical order, containing the names of several kinds of merchandise, with the duties or customs to be paid for the same, as settled by authority or agreed on between the several States that

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