Habit

A disposition or condition ot the body or mind acquired by custom or a frequent repetition of the same act.

— See 2 Mart. (La.; N. S.) 622; 18 Pa. St. 172; 5 Gray (Mass.) 851, The habit of dealing has always an important bearing upon the construction of commercial contracts, A ratification will be inferred from the mere habit of dealing between the parties; as, if a broker has been accustomed to settle losses on policies in a particular manner, without any objection being made, or vidth the silent approbation of his principal, and he should afterwards settle other policies in the same manner, to which no objection should be made within a reasonable time, a just presumption would arise of an implied ratification;

— for, if the principal did not agree to such settlement, he should have declared his dissent.

2 Bouv. Inst. 1313, 1314. of a certain thing having happened; e, g., marriage may be constituted by habit and repute. Bell, Diet.