Sentence examples for old customary from inspiring English sources

In England, the old customary law applied by the central courts at Westminster was too firmly entrenched to be lightly overthrown, but even here the development of written pleadings and new, speedier remedies had a transforming effect.

In petroleum engineering, especially where risks and cost are high, fractal models will take their place along with existing models as a powerful tool for the reservoir engineering because of old customary models and assuming that homogenous reservoirs cannot be exact.

This is not new law; it is in fact very old customary international law.

More generally, the Court signaled that the old customary restraints on election spending no longer applied.

This commission, under the presidency of a resolute reactionary, Appius Claudius, transformed the old customary law of Rome into the famous Twelve Tables, submitted them to the Assembly (which passed them with some changes), and displayed them in the Forum for all who would and could to read.

Although it came into force only in 1994, it embodies centuries-old customary laws, including the freedom of the seas, which says the high seas are open to all.

True cachet lay in the old and customary.

There's been a fair amount of this going on recently, improvisers with something else, and the something else tends not to be dance or opera, the customary old ways for jazz to get outside itself.

If Hoss is played older than is customary, Crow registers as more abrasively young than ever.

I feel I'm missing something here but she is clearly more than the customary mad old bat.

Perhaps to compensate for this lack, Mr. Foster has chosen to display "Early Sunday Morning" on an old easel, without its customary frame or glass.