Consuetudinary or CUSTOMARY LAW is an unwritten law established by usage and derived by immemorial custom from remote antiquity. When universal, it is called common law; when particular, it is called custom in a narrower sense, as the custom of a trade or of a district. See CUSTOM, COMMON LAW.
Consuetudinary
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 437
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