Law ultimately rests on custom: customs about who shall have the authority to decide disputes, what they shall treat as binding reasons for decision, i.e. as sources of law, and how customs may be changed.
"Yet we are bidden to be cautious about changing custom, particularly signature custom, particularly custom as hard won as this custom appears to be".
The nation itself represents the nexus of custom with custom, the shifting patterns of habitual activity.
The top-ranked amateur in the world, he has skipped from time zone to time zone and custom to custom.
(Ah, those discerning Brits!) But applause is a custom, and the custom, at least in the United States, has irrevocably changed.
More men are ordering custom shirts, suits with custom-color linings, jackets with real buttonholes on the sleeves and $2,000 custom-made shoes.
A lot of people come in with that shame, but a custom suit, and custom clothes, can be the most accelerated ways of getting people out of that shame".
At the same time, parents dismiss cutesy, flashy apps and Web sites that drill students using elaborate animation (like PopMath for arithmetic, iFlipr for custom flashcards, Cram for custom practice tests) as superficial edutainment, on par with children's TV.
And while professional work of this variety used to be the exclusive domain of custom designers — very expensive custom designers — today's disappearing acts are more likely to be mass-produced and considerably cheaper to pull off.
Unsurprisingly, we ended up developing custom forms of paper and custom inks".
