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unofficial law (Custom in law is the established pattern of behavior that can be objectively verified within a particular social setting. A claim can be carried out in defense of "what has always been done and accepted by law." Related is the idea of prescription; a right enjoyed through long custom rather than positive law. Customary law (also, consuetudinary or unofficial law) exists where: a certain legal practice is observed and the relevant actors consider it to be law (opinio juris). Most customary laws deal with standards of community that have been long-established in a given locale. However the term can also apply to areas of international law where certain standards have been nearly universal in their acceptance as correct bases of action – in example, laws against piracy or slavery (see hostis humani generis). In many, though not all instances, customary laws will have supportive court rulings and case law that has evolved over time to give additional weight to their rule as law and also to demonstrate the trajectory of evolution (if any) in the interpretation of such law by relevant courts. WK Alexander Demidov); custumal law; common law; law of custom (In this respect, what we think of as the law of custom, or the rule of recognition of custom, recognizes only some customs as law, and only some normative customs as law. | Indeed, by first posing and then answering the question about justice, the narrator opposes what might be called the law of "custom" to the juridical law of the ... Alexander Demidov); adat (некоторых мусульманских народов) |
