Legal Definition and Related Resources of Usage

The practice of customs that has endured for a long time. It must be notorious, certain and, above all things, reasonable and not offend against the intention of any legislative enactment. See Custom.

Long and uniform practice. In its most extensive meaning, this term includes “custom” and “prescription,” though it differs from them. In the narrower sense, it is applied to the habits, modes, and course of dealing which are observed in trade generally, as to all mercantile transactions, or to some particular branches of trade. See 9 Wend. (N. Y.) 349. A usage must be generally known and established, and so well settled and so uniformly acted upon, as to raise a fair presumption that it was known to both parties, and that they contracted with reference to and in conformity with it. 207 111. App. 325.

noun

• application
• conduct
• consuetude
• consuetudo
• convention
• custom
• customary use
• disposition
• employment
• established custom
• established practice
• fashion
• fixed procedure
• form
• formula
• habit
• habitual use
• habitude
• management
• manner
• method
• mode
• mos
• operation
• practice
• prescription
• prevalence
• routine
• service
• style
• system
• tradition
• treatment
• use
• utilization
• vogue
• wear
• wont Associated Concepts: common usage
• custom and usage
• general usageforeign phrases: Consuetudo ex certa causa rationabili usitata privat communem legem
• A custom
• based on a certain and reasonable cause
• supersedes the common law
• Optimus interpres rerum usus
• Usage is the best interpreter of things
• In contractibus
• tacite insunt quae sunt moriset consuetudinis
• ln contracts
• matters of custom and usage are tacitly implied
• Non ex opinionibus singulorum
• sed ex communi usu
• nomina exaudiri debent
• The names of things ought to be understood
• not according to individual opinions
• but according to common usage
• Obtemperandum est consuetudini rationabili tanquam legi
• A reasonable custom is to be obeyed like law
• Quae praeter consuetudinem et morem majorumfiunt nequeplacent neque recta videntur
• Things which are done contrary to the custom and manner of our ancestors neither please nor appear right

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Usage in Law Enforcement

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• Use
• Usance

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• Law Enforcement Officer
• Police
• Law Enforcement Agency

Further Reading

• usage in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
• usage in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
• A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis