Sentence examples for custom customs from inspiring English sources

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.

According to Sunni jurisprudence, in the application of local custom, custom that is accepted into law should be commonly prevalent in the region, not merely in an isolated locality.

"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.

We will then have no choice but to have a hard border between Scotland and England: you can't have two different customs policies without customs posts and customs checks.

The top-ranked amateur in the world, he has skipped from time zone to time zone and custom to custom.

"British customs officers did check customs and passenger manifests for planes that were offloading in DG.

(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.

She had trouble getting it thru the customs because the customs men thought it was in code but she told them no, it was a novel by Gertrude Stein.

Professor He said that despite new laws and government campaigns to assert central control of local customs offices, customs officials "sometimes feel more allegiance to the local government than to the central government".