Usual

Common, frequent, ordinary, customary, general. 71 111. App. 153; 172 111. 605; 182 111. 541.

Habitual; ordinary; customary; according to usage or custom; commonly established, observed or practised. See Chicago & A. R. Co., v. Hause, 71 III. App. 147; Kellogg v. Curtis, 69 Me. 214, 31 Am. Rep. 273; Tescher v Merea, 118 Ind. 586, 21 N. El 316; Trust Co. v. Norris, 61 Minn. 256, 63 N. W. 634.

— Usual covenants. See Covenant.

— Usual terms. A phrase in the common-law practice, which meant pleading issuably, rejoining gratis, and taking short notice of trini. When a defendant obtained further time to plead, these were the terms usually imposed. Wharton.

Occurs in some phrases which have been passed upon in the decisions. Usual and customary. These words, when used in respect to a method of selling coal by agents, import such a fixed and established usage as to be declared general by the trade. Carter v. Philadelphia Coal Co., 77 Pa. St. 286. Usual course of business. When a deposit with a tavern-keeper is said to have been made "in the usual course of business," the expression must be understood to mean a deposit of goods with him, by a TTsual high-'water mark. Signifies the limit reached by the neap tides. Teschemacher v. Thompson, 18 Vol. 11. Usual place. It being provided by statute that writs shall be served by leaving copies at the " usual " place of abode, the word usual means the place of abode at the time of the service of the writ. Gadsden 17. Johnson, 1 Nott Sr M. 89. The phrase, usual place of business, in a statute prescribing the town where one's weights and measures are to be sealed, refers to the locality of a provision dealer's shop, rather than that of his customers, where he weighs, measures, and delivers from his wagon. Palmer v. Kelleher, 111 Mass. 320. Usual terms. Is a phrase in the common-law practice which means pleading issuably, rejoining gratis, and taking short notice of trial. Wharton.