customary
IPA: kˈʌstʌmɛri
noun
- (law) A book containing laws and usages, or customs; a custumal.
adjective
- In accordance with, or established by, custom or common usage
- Holding or held by custom
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Examples of "customary" in Sentences
- Burr remained abroad for four years, living in customary indebtedness.
- It is clear that care was taken to appease spirits in customary fashion.
- But a situation may well arise in which the law of nations, actual or customary, is silent; what then is the duty of international jurisdiction?
- The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to maintain customary working conditions in the mines and customary procedure for the adjustment of workers 'grievances.
- The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to maintain customary working conditions in the mines and customary procedures for the adjustment of workers 'grievances.
- Their vital economic role was reflected in customary testamentary practices that adhered to a relatively gender-inclusive system of partible inheritance, contrasting with the English practice of primogeniture.
- The American voters gave Democrats clear control of Congress, rebuked President George W. Bush, and voiced an unequivocal public craving to trade in customary narrow-minded politics for something more inspiring.
- They it is (along with the unprincipled Liberal ‘Democrats’) who advocate a Treaty which not only erodes our sovereignty by way of elimination of some 60 vetoes, but gives to the EU all the attributes it needs to call itself a sovereign independent state as that phrase is understood in customary international law.
- March 31, 2011, ATAC and Bonaparte will negotiate and enter into a joint venture agreement that will contain the terms customary for similar agreements and terms: (i) appointing Bonaparte as the initial joint venture operator of the Rosy Property and allowing it to remain so for so long as its interest in the property equals at least 50%; (ii) allowing the operator to charge a management fee; and (iii) allowing for automatic conveyancing of
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