单词 | custumal |
释义 | custumaln. Law. Now historical. A document or book containing the customs which have acquired the force of laws or rights in a city, region, etc. (see custom n. 2a); spec. a medieval document listing the tenants of a particular manor and the conditions of their tenure, esp. the services owed to their lord. ΘΚΠ society > law > written law > [noun] > book of laws or statutes > customary customary1413 custumal1576 Grand Customer1685 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 98 A Latine Custumall of the towne of Hyde. a1645 J. Philipot Villare Cantianum (1659) 10 The best Customals of the Cinque Ports inform me there Moots and publick Assemblies are summoned, Sonitu Cornu. 1663 S. Taylor Hist. Gavel-kind xvi. 158 To what he observes in his 59th. page, out of the Customal of Eastry Mannour in Kent. 1741 T. Robinson Common Law of Kent iii. 35 Set forth in the Custumal of those Manors. 1792 W. Boys Coll. Hist. Sandwich 127 From the Customal of Sandwich. A translation. 1875 H. J. S. Maine Lect. Early Hist. Inst. i. 6 The Custumals or manuals of feudal rules plentiful in French legal literature. 1882 Athenæum 8 Apr. 441/3 The ‘Customes of Yardley Hastings’, in 1607..is not..a manor customal, but..an account, taken on the oaths of old men, of the ecclesiastical customs of the parish. 1952 Mariner's Mirror 38 262 The Custumal known as the Domesday of Ipswich. 2012 J. Davis Medieval Market Morality iii. 390 The custumal ordered that wardens be assigned to the market to ensure that the regulations were upheld. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † custumaladj. Law. Obsolete. rare. Of or relating to the usages or customs of a place. Cf. custom n. 2a. ΘΚΠ society > law > branch of the law > [adjective] > common law or customary > having to do with custumal1889 1889 Sir J. Monckton in Pall Mall Gaz. 5 Oct. 6/3 I find in the records no note of deviation from the usual custom, and as the custumal officer of the Corporation [of the City of London] I should feel bound to advise against it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1576adj.1889 |
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