custom and usage definition
custom and usage or “Samoan custom and usage” means the customs and usages of Samoa accepted as being in force at the relevant time and includes:
custom and usage has always been a means by which ambiguities can be resolved, even if it is not the first line of inquiry.231 As the California appellate court put it: “[R]equisite standards of certainty can [often] be fleshed out from otherwise vague statutory language by reference to any of the following sources:
custom and usage means “a usage or practice of the people, which, by common adoption and acquiescence, and by long and unvarying habit, has become compulsory, and has acquired the force of a law with respect to the place or subject-matter to which it relates. It results from a long series of actions, constantly repeated, which have, by such repetition and by uninterrupted acquiescence, acquired the force of a tacit and common consent. An habitual or customary practice, more or less widespread, which prevails within a geographical or sociological area; usage is a course of conduct based on a series of actual occurrences.” (Reference: Black’s Law Dictionary)
More Definitions of custom and usage
custom and usage or "Samoan custom and usage" means the customs and usages of Samoa accepted as being in force at the relevant time and includes: (a) the principles of custom usage accepted by people of Samoa in general; and (b) the customs and usages accepted as being in force in respect of a particular place or matter.