 | 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... | |
 | Characters and characteristics - 1805 - 596 pages
...capable as the rest of his brethren to help himself. Other authors, have indeed, given a much stranger reason for this custom, as if the lord of the fee had anciently a right of concubinage with his tenant's wife on her wedding night; and that therefore the... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 412 pages
...rule of the whole kingdom, and form the common law in its stricter and more useful signification. 2. Particular customs, which, for the most part, affect only the inhabitants of particular districts. 3. Certain particular laws, which by custom are adopted and used by some particular courts of pretty... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 414 pages
...rule of the whole kingdom, and form the common law in its stricter and more useful signification. 2. Particular customs, which, for the most part, affect only the inhabitants of particular districts. 3. Certain particular laws, which by custom are adopted and used by some particular courts of pretty... | |
 | Charles Barton - Conveyancing - 1821 - 696 pages
...lands descended to the youngest son, he being in most danger of being left destitute. Some authors h have indeed given a much stronger reason for this custom, as if the lord of the fee had anciently a right of concubinage with his tenant's wife on her wedding nigbt; and that therefore the... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - Constitutional law - 1823 - 872 pages
...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 of particular districts. 3. Certain particular laws; which by custom are adopted and used by some particular courts, of pretty... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 888 pages
...capable as the rest of his brethren to help himself. Other authors have indeed given a much stranger +F1"oi y `h ڕf _ W t <o ?>* 3z' anciently a right to break the seventh commandment with his tenant's wife од) her wedding night;... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1825 - 572 pages
...rule of the whole kingdom, and form the common law, in it's stricter and more usual signification. 2. Particular customs ; which for the most part affect only the inhabitants of particular districts. 3. Certain particular laws ; which by custom are adopted and used by some, particular courts, of pretty... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 660 pages
...rule of the whole kingdom, and form the common law, in it's stricter and more usual signification. 2. Particular customs ; which for the most part affect only the inhabitants of particular districts. 3. Certain particular laws ; which by custom are adopted and used by some particular courts, of pretty... | |
 | 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... | |
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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 the most part affect only the inhabitants of particular districts. 3. Certain... 
