Legal Definition and Related Resources of Habit

The customary conduct to pursue which one has acquired a tendency from frequent repetition of the same act. See Knickerbocker Life Ins. Co. v Foley, 105 U.S. 350, 26 L. Ed. 1055.

A disposition or condition ot the body or mind acquired by custom or a frequent repetition of the same act. See 2 Mart. (La.; N. S.) 622; 18 Pa. St. 172; 5 Gray (Mass.) 851, The habit of dealing has always an important bearing upon the construction of commercial contracts, A ratification will be inferred from the mere habit of dealing between the parties; as, if a broker has been accustomed to settle losses on policies in a particular manner, without any objection being made, or vidth the silent approbation of his principal, and he should afterwards settle other policies in the same manner, to which no objection should be made within a reasonable time, a just presumption would arise of an implied ratification; for, if the principal did not agree to such settlement, he should have declared his dissent. 2 Bouv. Inst. 1313, 1314.

noun

• acquired mode of behavior
• attitude
• characteristic behavior
• characteristically repeated action
• common practice
• confirmed way
• consuetude
• consuetude
• convention
• conventionality
• course of conduct
• custom
• customary action
• customary conduct
• disposition
• fashion
• frequently repeated act
• habitus
• inclinationleaning
• mannerism
• mode
• mos
• jbservance
• particularity
• pattern
• peculiarity
• practice
• predisposition
• proclivity
• propensity
• recurrence
• repetition
• routine
• rule
• second nature
• style
• tendency
• tradition
• trait
• usual procedure
• way Associated Concepts: confirmed habits
• continued habits
• custom and usage
• temperate habits

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