 | William Herbert - Inns of Chancery - 1804 - 454 pages
...the whole kingdom, and form the common law in its stricter and more usual signification : secondly, particular customs, which for the most part affect only the inhabitants of particular districts : thirdly, certain particular laws, which by custom are adopted and used by some particular courts... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 686 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 inhabi(1) What lord Hale says is undoubtedly true, that " the original " of the common law is as undiscoverablc... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 726 pages
...which for I lie most part affect only the inhabitants of particular districts. 3. Certain particnlar laws, which by custom are adopted and used by some...courts of pretty general and extensive jurisdiction. COMMON place book, among the learned, denotes a register of what tilings occur worthy to be noted in... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 414 pages
...are the universal rule of the whole kingdom, and form the common law in its stricter and more useful signification. 2. Particular customs, which, for the...courts of pretty general and extensive jurisdiction. COMMON place bonk, among the learned, denotes a register of what things occur worthy to be noted in... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 412 pages
...are the universal rule of the whole kingdom, and form the common law in its stricter and more useful signification. 2. Particular customs, which, for the...courts of pretty general and extensive jurisdiction. COMMON place book, among the learned, denotes a register of what things occur worthy to be noted in... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - Constitutional law - 1823 - 872 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 ;...courts, of pretty general and extensive jurisdiction. I. As to general customs, or the common law properly so called ; this is that law, by which proceedings... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 660 pages
...of Richard the First. . . rule of the whole kingdom, and form the common law, in it's stricter and more usual signification. 2. Particular customs ;...courts, of pretty general and extensive jurisdiction. [ 68 "] I. As to general customs, or the common law, properly so called ; this is that law by which... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1825 - 572 pages
...of Richard the First. F 3 rule of the whole kingdom, and form the common law, in it's stricter and more usual signification. 2. Particular customs ;...courts, of pretty general and extensive jurisdiction. ,- 68 -, I. As to general customs, or the common law, properly so called ; this is that law by which... | |
 | Alexander Whellier - 1825 - 836 pages
...kingdom, and form the common law in its stricter and more usual signification. 2. Particular custom?, which for the most part affect only the inhabitants of particular districts. 3. Certain particular customs, which by custom are adopted and used by particular courts. form of acquiring and transferring... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1827 - 916 pages
...customs; which are the universal rule of the whole kingdom, and form the common law, in its stricter and n k Uod. Un. HbL xiii. 136. 1 Kid. u. 211. m Mi. xixlil. 21. 68. (1) The digest of laws, by Edward the... | |
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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... 
