CUSTOM

A usage or practice of the people, which, by common adoption and acquiescence, and by long and unvarying habit, K has become compulsory, and has acquired the force of a law with respect to ·the place or subject-matter to which it relates. Adams v. Insurance Oo., 95 Pa. 355, 40 Am. Rep.. 662; Lindsay v. Cusimano (C. C.) 12· Fed. L 504; Str other v. Lucas, 12 Pet. 445, 9 L. Ed. 1137; Minis v. Nelson (C. C.) 43 Fed. • 779; Panaud v. Jones, 1 Cal. 498; Hursh v. North, 40 Pa. 241. A law not written, established by long us- M age, and the consent of our ancestors. [s. 315]