 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 1008 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Wood Renton, Maxwell Alexander Robertson - Great Britain - 1907 - 726 pages
...customs, which, he says, for the most part affect only the inhabitants of particular districts. And (3) certain particular laws, which by custom are adopted and used by more particular Courts, as, for instance, the canon law. See also Doctor and Student (i. 4). The term... | |
 | John Chipman Gray - Jurisprudence - 1909 - 366 pages
...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...courts of pretty general and extensive jurisdiction." He then refers to many doctrines of Law and says: " All these are doctrines that are not set down in... | |
 | Charles Erehart Chadman - Law - 1912 - 624 pages
...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 ;...of pretty general and extensive jurisdiction. * 1. As to general customs, or the common law, properly so called ; this is that law, by [*68] which proceedings... | |
 | Frederic William Maitland, Francis Charles Montague - Law - 1915 - 256 pages
...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,...courts, of pretty general and extensive jurisdiction. As to general customs, or the common law properly so called: this is that law, by which proceedings... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1915 - 1632 pages
...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 oi particular districts. 3. Certain particular laws ; which by custom are adopted and used by some... | |
 | Benjamin Nathan Cardozo - Judges - 1921 - 218 pages
...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,...particular courts of pretty general and extensive jurisdiction."10 Undoubtedly the creative energy of custom in the development of common law is less... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1922 - 1044 pages
...rule of the whole kingdom, and form the common law, in its stricter and more usual signification. (15) 2. Particular customs; which, for the most part, affect...courts, of pretty general and extensive jurisdiction. (16) *I. As to general customs, or the common law, properly so called; [*68 this is that law, by which... | |
 | Lawrence Boyd Evans - Constitutional law - 1925 - 1436 pages
...customs; which are the universal rule in the whole kingdom, and form the common law, in its stricter and more usual signification. 2. Particular customs; which...courts, of pretty general and extensive jurisdiction. 1. As to general customs, or the common law properly so called; this is that law, by which proceedings... | |
 | Alfred William Brian Simpson - Law - 1987 - 458 pages
...the Common Law, and ed. (1716), p. 22. whole kingdom, and form the common law, in its stricter and more usual signification. 2. Particular customs which...courts, of pretty general and extensive jurisdiction. This view of the common law has today fallen almost wholly out of favour, and the reason for this,... | |
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This unwritten, or common law, is properly distinguishable into three kinds: 1. 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... 
