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#redirect [[customs]] |
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To be a source of law, a local '''custom''' had to meet certain criteria. <br> |
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It had to be |
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* clear, certain, and consistent |
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* reasonable |
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* obligatory and exercised as of right |
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* geographically local |
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* in conformity with any applicable [[statute]]s (otherwise these overrode the custom) |
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* continuously held since "time immemorial" |
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'''Time immemorial''', ''per se'', meant a time antedating any legal history. However, for clarity, this was taken by reference to a particular voyage of the [[King]] of [[England]] to [[France]]. In 1275/6, again to avoid compication, this was finally fixed to have been at the beginning of the reign of [[Richard I]] in 1189. <br> |
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This had the additional effect that a claimed custom could thereafter be defeated simply by showing that its exercise would hve been impossible at that time -- for example a claimed customary right of grazing on land which, on enquiry, proved to have been underwater at or since 1189. |
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