Consuetudo Est Altera Lex
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
Cu Btom Is another law. 4 Coke, 21. CONSUETUDO EST OPTIMUS INTERpres legum. Custom is the best expounder of the law. Coke, 2d Inst. 18; Dig. 1. 3. 37; Jenks. Cent. Cas. 273. CONSUETUDO ET COMMUNIS ASSUREtudo vincit legem non scriptam, si sit specialis, et Interpretatur legem scriptam, si lex sit generalis. Custom and common usage overcome the unwritten law, if it be special, and interpret the written law, if the law be general. Jenk. Cent. Cas. 273. CONSUETUDO EX CERTA CAUSA RAtlonabill usitata privat communem legem. Custom observed by reason of a certain and reasonable cause supersedes the common laws. Litt. § 169; Co. Litt. 33b. See 5 Bing. 293; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) p. 825.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916