Unwritten Law

All that portion of the law, observed and admiuistered in the couris, which has not bcen enacted or promuigated in the form of a statute or ordinance, including the unenacted portions of the common law, general and particular customs having the forco of law, and the rules, principles, and maxims established by Judicial precedents or the successive like decisions of the courts. See Co.de Civ. Proc. Cal. 1903, § 1899; B. & C. Comp. Or. 1901, § 736. In recent years, this term has been popularly and falsely applied to a supposed local principle or sentiment which justifies private vengeance, particularly the slaying of a man who bas insulted a woman, when perpetrated by her kinsman or husband. It is needless to say that no such law exists, and that such an opinion or sentiment, however prevalent, couid not by any possible right use of language be termed a "law" or furnish a legal justification for a homicide,