Rights which are acquired by custom. They differ from prescriptive rights in this, that the former are local usages, belonging to all the inhabitants of a particular place or district the latter are rights of individuals, independent of the place of their residence. … [Read more...]

The style in which writs and all judicial processes were made out during the great revolution, from the execution of King Charles I. till Oliver Cromwell was declared protector. … [Read more...]

In administrative law. The house or office where commodities are entered for importation or exportation where the duties, bounties, or drawbacks, payable or receivable upon such importation or exportation are paid or received; and where ships are cleared out, etc. Custom-house broker. One whose occupation it is, as the agent of others, to arrange entries and other custom-house … [Read more...]

In the custody of the law. … [Read more...]

This term is usually applied to those taxes which are payable upon goods and merchandise imported or exported. Story, Const f 949; Pollock v. Trust Co., 158 U. S. 601, 15 Sup. Ct. 912, 39 L. Ed. 1108; Marriott v. Brune, 9 How. 632, 13 I Ed. 282. The duties, toll, tribute, or tariff payable upon merchandise exported or imported. These are called ''customs" from having been paid … [Read more...]