Customs
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
This term is usually applied to those taxes which are payable upon goods and merchandise imported or exported.
Story, Const. § 949; Bac. Abr. "Smuggling."
The duties, toll, tribute, or tariff payable upon merchandise exported or imported. These are called customs from having been paid from time immemorial. Expressed in law Latin by custuma, as distinguished from consuetudines, which are usages merely.
1 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 314.
CUSTOMS AND SERVICES (Law Lat. consuetudines et servitia).
In old English law
Services which the tenants of lands, under the feudal law, owed to their lords, and which, if withheld, the lord might resort to the writ of customs and services (breve de eonsuetudinibus et. servitiis) to compel.
Tomlin.
See "De Consuetudinibus et Servitiis."