That seems to be the custom around here.
Besides, it is not our custom to deliver goods.
Custom or public opinion doubtless secured that the parties would not agree to wrong.
Almost all trace of tribal custom has already disappeared from the law of the Code.
The ancient custom called the beklem-recht, or lease-right, doubtless accounts for the extended ownership of the land.
Most of the boys she dated would never have thought of practicing the age-old custom of walking around the car to open her door, or guiding her through the crowd with a gentle hand on one elbow.
It is the rule and custom of the cupbearer to pour out a little of the wine and taste it before handing the cup to me.
Before the hunt, by old custom, the count had drunk a silver cupful of mulled brandy, taken a snack, and washed it down with half a bottle of his favorite Bordeaux.
Here and there a couple of bees, by force of habit and custom cleaning out the brood cells, with efforts beyond their strength laboriously drag away a dead bee or bumblebee without knowing why they do it.
Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called.
(2) This private connexion developed into a custom according to which a state appointed one of the citizens of a foreign state as its representative (7rpo Evos) to protect any of its citizens travelling or resident in his country.
The law and custom which preceded the Code we shall call " early," that of the New Babylonian empire (as well as the Persian, Greek, &c.) " late.
It was formerly the custom in our village, when a poor debtor came out of jail, for his acquaintances to salute him, looking through their fingers, which were crossed to represent the grating of a jail window, "How do ye do?"
On this account, the custom of both the French and English people of the country was for years before and for several years after 1870 to pronounce it Man-I-CO-ba, and even in some cases to spell it " Manitobah."
To prevent internal trade with Peru a custom-house was set up at Cordoba to levy a duty of 50% on everything in transit to and from the river Plate.
Where they consent to any practical custom from practical necessity they also consent because it is artistically right for them, and if it had not been artistically right they would have soon swept it away.
The custom was for the king to get a fixed sum from the sheriff of each county, this being called the firma comitatus, and for the sheriff to collect this as best he could.
Strikes a blow at the custom of purveyance.
The extent of jurisdiction of archdeacons depended much upon local customs. In England the custom was generally in their favour.
Ordinarily, the appeal from an archdeacon or his official lay to the court of the bishop; but by custom the appeal might be to the court of the metropolitan.
These courts were convenient, since it was the custom to appoint delegates resident in the neighbourhood, and the power of sub-delegation, general or limited, simplified questions of distance.
It therefore became the custom to lodge a double appeal: one to the archbishop " for defence," and the other to the pope as the real appeal (" Hostiensis," Super Decret.
As we understand our own genome better, we will know better how to eat in a way that is custom tailored for us.
Bagration appeared in the doorway of the anteroom without hat or sword, which, in accord with the club custom, he had given up to the hall porter.
Chinese restaurants in Memphis, Tennessee, offer diners an authentic meal with choices of drinks custom to the Chinese heritage.
Alternatively, work with the restaurant to design your own custom menu by mixing and matching items from each menu style.
Choose from one of their set catering menus or work with a chef to craft a custom menu that fits both your tastes and budget.
Order food the Greek way by custom ordering your plate instead of looking at a menu, if you dare.
Visitors to the grill have the opportunity to create a custom dish to meet their personal pallet.
In addition to the great views, diners can enjoy live music with no additional cover charges, dancing, and seasonal events, such as Lobsterfest, a custom party, and the annual Westport Heritage Antique Boat Show, located right in the Westport Marina.
Make sure to save room for everyone's favorite part of a pop shop: custom soda fountain drinks and milkshakes.
You can also build your own burger or try one of the many custom varieties of hot dogs.
Booster Juice offers its own line of funky juice mixes, with names like "Green Hornet" and "Tahiti Squeeze," but also offers to make custom creations to order, complete with your choice of health supplement.
The Bellport Named after the town it resides in, The Bellport offers lunch and dinner, live jazz and its custom breads for sale along with a collection of local art to view while dining.
Reserve the Chef's Table for a festive dinner with custom wine-pairings.
Create a custom sashimi platter or sample a creative sushi roll.
These snacks derive from the custom of spending hours socializing in a taverna, and vary widely by region.
Katie maneuvered her sequined ball mask into place only to see her sister on the verge of disappearing in the masses of women in custom gowns and masks.
Most of Jackson's clothes, especially his suits, were custom made or straight off the runway from Paris or Milan.
General Grant had served two terms (1869-1877), and the unwritten law of custom condemned his being given another.
Boniface endeavoured to nominate his own successor, thus transforming into law, or at least into custom, the proceeding by which he had benefited; but the clergy and the senate of Rome forced him to cancel this arrangement.
According to the custom of the time he had augmented his slender salary by private trade.
When the custom of commendation developed, the king charged the mayor of the palace to protect those who had commended themselves to him and to 1 The mayors of certain cities in the United Kingdom (London, York, Dublin) have acquired by prescription the prefix of "lord."
Any note may be a pitch note; for orchestras custom has settled upon a' in the treble clef, for organs and pianos in Great Britain c 2, and for modern brass instruments b flat'.
Feeling of the later time frowned on the custom, and Ezekiel treats it as adultery.'
In order to identify the graves of Persepolis we must bear in mind that Ctesias assumes that it was the custom for a king to prepare his own tomb during his lifetime.
This custom, which has been defined as the invasion of actual marriage by allotting permanent paramours, is confined to a special set of tribes.
On the quay are the landing-stages, the custom-house and the railway station.
It is the duty of a debtor to pay a debt without waiting for any demand, and, unless there is a place fixed on either by custom or agreement, he must seek out his creditor for the purpose of paying him unless he is "beyond the seas."
They gradually lost their original significance, and the custom, where it survives, has become completely vulgarized.
When the Semitic tribes settled in the cities of Babylonia, their tribal custom passed over into city law.
In the republics, as we begin to know them after the war of investitures, government was carried on by officers called consuls, varying in number according to custom and according to the division of the town into districts.
It was the custom for the archbishop elect to take two oaths, the first of episcopal allegiance to the pope, and the second in recognition of the royal supremacy.
This custom, which owes its origin to Henry II., meant a loss of revenue to the lords, whose victory in this matter, however, was a step backwards.
(a) Fines sprang from the older custom of directing alms by way of penance in the internal forum (Van Espen, ubi sup. c. 1, 5-10).
Early in Henry II.'s time it had become the custom of England for the court Christian: to "signify" its sentence of excommunication to the king and to demand from him a writ of significavit to the sheriff, to imprison the person excommunicated.
The real beginning of English equity is to be found in the custom of handing over to that officer, for adjudication, the complaints which were addressed to the king, praying for remedies beyond the reach of the common law.
Albs were originally quite plain, but about the 10th century the custom arose of ornamenting the borders and the cuffs of the sleeves with strips of embroidery, and this became common in the 12th century.
Their only obligation to the Turkish government is to furnish a contingent in time of war; the only law they recognize is either traditional custom(adet) or the unwritten Kanun-i Leks Dukajinit, a civil and criminal code, so called from its author, Leka Dukajini, who is supposed to have lived in the 13th or 14th century.
The custom is vouched for by travellers as still observed in Borneo, Burma, Uganda and elsewhere, the animal chosen being a pig or a fowl.
2 In the 15th century the custom became almost universal of following the procession with the performance of miracle-plays and mysteries, generally arranged and acted by members of the gilds who had formed part of the pageant.
Fournier (p. 219) says that in France it was not till the 17th century that there grew up a custom of having different officials for the metropolitan, one for him as bishop, a second as metropolitan, and even a third as primate, with an appeal from one to the other, and that it was an abuse due to the parlements which strove to make the official independent of the bishop. In England there has been, for a long time, a separate diocesan court of Canterbury held before the " commissary."
That the recurrence of the market determined the length of the week seems clear from the Wajagga custom of naming the days after the markets they visit, as well as from the fact that on the Congo the word for week is the same as the word for market.
The universal habit of writing and perpetual recourse to written contract even more modified primitive custom and ancient precedent.
Previously John, disregarding the custom of the past, had taken as much as he could extort.
The constables of these castles had adopted the custom of compelling these landholders to give money and not service, mercenaries being then hired to perform this.
But even if I had a robot that knew everything, I couldn't really say, "Tell me every custom they have here" and be fully informed.
The Code did not merely embody contemporary custom or conserve ancient law.
It was the custom for Mitka to play the balalayka in the huntsmen's room when "Uncle" returned from the chase.
Henceforward he who inherits a barony must pay r¦o, he who inherits a knight's fee too shillings or less, and for smaller holdings less "according to the ancient custom of fiefs."
It is a custom in the South to build a small house near the homestead as an annex to be used on occasion.
