Second, we sometimes have to lay aside utility and determine how to act by precedent and tradition, by learning the customs of a culture; but precedent, custom and tradition are also results of history.
The Roman senate's authority derived from precedent, custom, and the personal moral example of the senators.
"The rules, precedents, customs, practices, traditions and courtesies of the Senate have been forged over hundreds of years and after much trial and experience," Mr. Byrd said last month.
This esteem and prestige was based on both precedent and custom, as well as the high caliber and prestige of the senators.
The competences of the general sejmiks were defined by precedent and custom rather than law; on rare instances when external circumstances prevented a national Sejm from being convened (such as 1511, 1513 and 1577), the general sejmiks were seen as competent to legislate on national matters.
Effective July 18 , 2013 the office of West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin established guidelines in accordance with the United States Code and West Virginia precedent and customs regarding the half-mast display of United States and West Virginia state flags on West Virginia state properties.
All the same, Glanville argued, custom and precedent together constitute a knowable common law, a delicate handling of what, during the reign of Henry II, had become a vexing question: Can a law be a law if it's not written down?
The bishop Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627 1704), one of the principal French theorists of divine right, asserted that the king's person and authority were sacred; that his power was modeled on that of a father's and was absolute, deriving from God; and that he was governed by reason (i.e., custom and precedent).
In contrast, in Fong Thin Choo, the High Court expressed the view that under regulation 12 6) of the Customs Regulations 1979, the fact that goods had not been exported from Singapore was a precedent fact to the customs officer's power to require the owner of the goods to pay customs duty.
There are three general sources of Singapore law: legislation, judicial precedents (case law), and custom.
It's the central element of what's known as the Law of the River, a loosely defined and circumscribed body of rules, precedents, habits, treaties, customs, and compacts which isn't written down all in one place but is invoked almost any time two water users disagree about who's entitled to what.
