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Customary Service

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

A service due by ancient custom or prescription only. Such is, for example, the service of doing suit at another's mill, where the persons resident in a particular place, by usage, time out of mind have been accustomed to grind corn at a particular mill.

3 Bl. Comm. 234.

CUSTOMARY TENANTS (Law Lat. custumarii tenentes).

In English law

Such tenants as hold by the custom of the manor, as their special evidence.

Termes de la Ley

Copyholders belong to this class.

2 Bl. Comm. 147, 148.

See "Copyholder."

See Copyholder.