For a discussion of this and other customary deviations from the Internal Revenue Code, see Lawrence Zelenak, Custom and the Rule of Law in the Administration of the Income Tax, 62 Duke L.J. 829 (2013).
Saudi jurisprudence has erred, they say, by confusing conservative tribal custom with the rules of sharia, thus lumping the innocent mingling of the sexes with the true sin of khulwa, meaning an unmarried, unrelated couple's "seclusion" in a setting that could tempt devilishness.
The obligation on Ireland to ensure border controls is implicit in the EU's latest no-deal paper, which notes that member states must be ready to enforce the EU customs code – the rules on goods entering the bloc.
"My dad is a retired civil servant," Singhal says, "and when he visited us he used to worry the whole time about returning home and taking presents through customs where the rules about what you could bring home were very complicated, and changing all the time, and he would get harassed and asked a hundred questions.
Absolutist political customs developed into the rule of law, persisted to post-colonial days, and can still explain state failure in the African continent (see Bertocchi and Guerzoni 2011, 2012 on the determinants and consequences of state fragility in contemporary Africa).
Colorectal cancer related GEO series (GSE) were preliminarily identified as those that passed the custom filter rule [see Supplementary Table S1 (Supplementary Material available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/170289)].
Aristotle also vindicates the rule of custom and justifies the obligations accepted by members of society: the solitary man, he writes, "is either a beast or a God".
Perry Meyer explains that this ancient custom has its basis in the rule of law found in Leviticus 19 9-10, 23:22, & in Deuteronomy 24:19-24.
In contrast to this overwhelming conservatism, paralleled by the rule of custom and tribal elders in most primitive societies, the political philosophers of ancient Greece question the basis and purpose of government.
'The provision of the act which petitioner is charged with having violated is that part thereof which prohibits any purchaser of grain from deducting any amount from the actual weight under any claim of right to do so by reason of any custom or rule of the board of trade; and it is the rule of the Kansas City board of trade at which this act is really aimed.
