Custom is subject to a communicative tradeoff in the law: all else being equal, informationally demanding customs require an audience with a high degree of common knowledge.
Finally, there has been an increase in laws and customs requiring that equal space or time or a right of reply be rendered all major contenders in political campaigns or even major spokesmen differing on major issues of the day.
Local customs require that visitors to Fiji villages bring kava to present as a sevusevu, or gift, to the Turaga ni Koro, who is the village head.
Muslim custom requires that the dead be buried as soon as possible.
Mr. Brennan said that appealing to other countries would have exceeded the time frame that Islamic custom requires, of burial within 24 hours of death.
"A man comes to our house, and custom requires that our countenance should brighten, and that we should say we are glad to see him," he wrote in "The Cotton Kingdom".
One thing that's certain is that he will enjoy the coach — the horse-drawn Diamond Jubilee coach, that is, in which he and the monarch will, as custom requires, process down the Mall.
-ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Custom requires an exchange of piffling politenesses.
She explained to me that custom requires every entertainer must be rewarded.
They worked quickly, Agha said; Islamic custom requires bodies to be interred within 24 hours, wrapped in simple shrouds.
