 | William Blackstone - 1836 - 694 σελίδες
...law (A). To make a particular custom good, the following are necessary requisites. 1. That it have been used so long, that the memory of man runneth not to the contrary (21). So that, if any one can shew (e) Dr. and St. 1, 10. (/) Cro. Car. 516. (20) An action... | |
 | 1838 - 556 σελίδες
...bad custom, for the reasons that follow : 1. To make any custom at common law good, 'it must have ' been used so long that the memory of man runneth not to the ' contrary, so that if any one can show the beginning of it, it is ' not a good custom. 'f But we have shown that, since the accession... | |
 | William Blackstone, James Stewart - 1839 - 556 σελίδες
...make a particular custom good, the following are necessary requisites. Rules as to. !• That it have been used so long, that the memory of man runneth...the beginning of it, it is no good custom. For which [ 77 ] reason no custom can prevail against an express act of parliament ; since the statute itself... | |
 | George Bowyer - 1841 - 742 σελίδες
...continuity ; 3dly, peaceableness ; 4thly, certainty ; and, 5thly, consistency. 1st. A custom must have been used so long that the memory of man runneth not to the contrarg. If it can be shewn to have begun within the time of legal memory* that is to say, since... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - 1841 - 626 σελίδες
...the law(s)/] As to the validity of a custom, the following rules are established: £1. It must have been used so long, that the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.]] Upon this subject, however, it is material to recollect what has been before laid down,... | |
 | 1857 - 514 σελίδες
...place. Sir W. Blackstone tells us that a custDm, in order that it may be legal and binding, must "have been used so long that the memory of man runneth not to the contrary."* A custom, to hold good, must also be reasonable, or rather not unreasonable : a custom... | |
 | 1844 - 784 σελίδες
...Hlackstoue defines those customs to be legally binding as law and in themselves evidence, that have been used so long "that the memory of man runneth not to the contrary." Customs, therefore, that do now and have immemorially existed in Virginia and Massachusetts,... | |
 | 1848 - 558 σελίδες
...Certain ; 6, Compulsory ; and 7, Consistent. First, — A custom must be ancient; that is, it must have been used so long that the memory of man runneth not to the contrary ; for if any one ESSENTIAL PARTS OF A GOOD CUSTOM. 7 can show the beginning of it, it... | |
 | William Samuel Waithman Ruschenberger - 1850 - 114 σελίδες
...good custom, it ought to be no longer used. A usage or custom to be immemorial in England must " have been used so long, that the memory of man runneth not to the contrary. So that if * Observations on Certain Objections to the General Order of the Secretary of the Navy, conferring... | |
 | 1852 - 784 σελίδες
...and to be good, it must be and immemorial. A usage or custom to be immfmorial in England, must have been used so long " that the memory of man runneth not to the contrary. So that if any one can show the beginning of it, it is no good custom. For which reason no custom can prevail against an express... | |
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That it have been used so long, that the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.! 
