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Consuetudo loci observanda est

Consuetudo loci observanda est. Litt. The custom of a place is to be observed, See CUSTOM; CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY.

Thistle

Thistle, it was the custom within the manor of Halton, in Chester, that if, in driving beasts over a common, the driver permitted

Mistake

where a person discounts a forged bill, is recoverable (though a banker paying the forged cheque of a customer cannot charge the customer with the loss), and see Jones & Co. v. aring & Gillow Ltd., 1926

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Lanis decre scentia Walli' traducendis absque custuma, etc

Lanis decre scentia Walli' traducendis absque custuma, etc., an ancient writ that lay to the customer of a port to permit one to pass wool without paying custom, he having paid it before in

Lastage or lestage

Lastage or lestage [fr. lastagium, Lat.], a custom exacted in some fairs and markets to carry things bought whither one will. But it is more accurately

Market overt

of the (English) Sale of Goods Act, 1893, 'where goods are sold in market overt, according to the custom of the market, the buyer acquires a good title to the goods, provided he buys them in good

Timber

but not so old as to have unusable wood in them. Other trees may be timber by the custom of the country. Thus beech is timber by the custom of Buckinghamshire and Parts of Gloucestershire. Aspen and

Occupancy right

Occupancy right, occupancy rights are creatures of statutes, or to be more precise the creatures of custom adopted by statute, which by defining the nature of the evidence, which a person claiming such rights is

Passing off

an action for deceit. The tort of passing-off involves a misrepresentation made by a trader to his prospective customers calculated to injure, as a reasonably foreseeable consequence, the business or goodwill of another which actually or probably,

Sagotra marriage

Sagotra marriage, the custom of sagotra marriages amongst the Waish Aggarwals is a well established and recognised custom and that although it

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