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Consuetude

Custom habit usage

ill usage

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Prescription

Prescription [fr. pr'scribo, Lat.], title produced and authorised by long usage. It is known in the Roman Law as usucapio. Title by prescription arises from a long-continued and uninterrupted

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Custom

particular parish (as to which see NETS) or manor, etc. If there be an invariable certain and general usage or custom of any particular tradeor place, the law will imply that a party contacting upon a matter

Shebaitship

a part of the usufruct, the mode of enjoyment; and the amount of the usufruct depending again on usage and custom, if not devised by the founder. Shebaitship being property, it devolves like any other species of

Away-going, or Way-going crops

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, 1 Sm

Common Law

with Acts of Parliament; but that it receives its binding powers, as a law, from long and immemorial usage, and universal reception throughout the realm. The authenticity of these customs, rules, and maxims rests entirely upon reception

Common quality

community of Ahmedabad whether as natives or as being admitted to that caste or community under custom or usage. The mere fact that a person of the Rana community who is not an original native of Ahmedabad

Copyhold

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 by the

Deed

be sufficient in point of law, intelligible without punctuation, and clear without the aid of stops or parentheses. Usage has arranged the text of a conveyance inter partes in a formal and well-understood sequence; and although it

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Consuetude

Custom habit usage

ill usage

Matched in: Term ill usage

Prescription

Prescription [fr. pr'scribo, Lat.], title produced and authorised by long usage. It is known in the Roman Law as usucapio. Title by prescription arises from a long-continued and uninterrupted

Keep your definitions linked to case research

Custom

particular parish (as to which see NETS) or manor, etc. If there be an invariable certain and general usage or custom of any particular tradeor place, the law will imply that a party contacting upon a matter

Shebaitship

a part of the usufruct, the mode of enjoyment; and the amount of the usufruct depending again on usage and custom, if not devised by the founder. Shebaitship being property, it devolves like any other species of

Away-going, or Way-going crops

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, 1 Sm

Common Law

with Acts of Parliament; but that it receives its binding powers, as a law, from long and immemorial usage, and universal reception throughout the realm. The authenticity of these customs, rules, and maxims rests entirely upon reception

Common quality

community of Ahmedabad whether as natives or as being admitted to that caste or community under custom or usage. The mere fact that a person of the Rana community who is not an original native of Ahmedabad

Copyhold

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 by the

Deed

be sufficient in point of law, intelligible without punctuation, and clear without the aid of stops or parentheses. Usage has arranged the text of a conveyance inter partes in a formal and well-understood sequence; and although it

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