Author: Encyclopedic
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Consuetudo Non Trahitur In Consequentlam
Custom is not drawn into consequence. 3 Keb. 499; 4 Jur. (N. S.) 139. …
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Consuetudo Neque Injuria Oriti, Neque Tolli Potest
A custom can neither arise nor be abolished by a wrong. Lofft, 340. …
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Consuetudo Non Habitur In Consequentiam
Custom is not to be drawn into a precedent. 3 Keb. 499. …
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Consuetudo Praescripta Et Legitlma Vincit Legem
A prescriptive and legitimate custom overcomes the law. Co. Litt. 113. …
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Consuetudo Est Optimus Interpres Legum
Custom is the best expounder of the law. Coke, 2d Inst. 18; Dig. 1. 3. 37; Jenks. Cent. Cas. 273. …
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Consuetudo Manerii Et Loci Observanda Est
A custom of a manor and place is to be observed. 6 Coke, 67. …
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Consuetudo Et Communis Assuretudo Vincit Legem Non Scriptam, Si Sit Specialis, Et Interpretatur Legem Scriptam, Si Lex Sit Generalis
Custom and common usage overcome the unwritten law, if it be special, and interpret the written law, if the law be general. Jenk. Cent. Cas. 273. …
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Consuetudo Mercatorum
(Lat.) The custom of merchants; the same with lex mercatoria (g. v.) …
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Consuetudo, Licet Sit Magnae Auctoritatis, Nunquam Tamen Praejudicat Manifestae Veritati
A custom though it be of great authority, should never, however, be prejudicial to manifest truth. 4 Coke, 18. …
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Consuetudo Loci Observanda Est
The custom of the place Is to be observed. 4 Coke, 28b; 6 Coke, 67; 10 Coke, 139; 4 C. B. 48. …
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Consuetudinarius
(Lat.) In old English law. A ritual or book containing the rites and forms of divine offices, or the customs of abbeys and monasteries. A record of the consuetudtnes (customs). Blount; Wishaw. …
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Construction, Court Of
A court of equity or of common law, as the case may be, is called the court of construction with regard to wills, as opposed to the court of probate, whose duty is to decide whether an instrument be a -voll at all. Now, the court of probate may decide that a given […]
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Consuetudinary Law
Customary or traditional law. …
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Consuetudines Feudorum
(Lat. feudal customs). A compilation of the law of feuds or fiefs in Lombardy, made A. D. 1170. It is called, also, the Book of Fiefs, and is of great and generally received authority. The compilation is said to have been ordered by Frederic Barbarossa (Ersk. Inst. 2. 3. 5), […]
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Construction Contracts
Contracts for works of permanent improvement to realty, whether by the erection of buildings, filling, excavating, digging wells, etc …