Questions tagged [customary-law]

This refers to the customary body of domestic law. Not to be used for customary international law, which is a different concept altogether.

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What is "customary law"?

Some of the comments under this answer make me wonder whether what lawyers mean if they speak of "customary law" is very different from what I may have imagined they meant. Say you're in England in 1750 and you have a dispute over whether someone…
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How was the Swiss civil code of 1907 influenced by uncodified customary law?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Huber (Note to those who are innocent of German: the first syllable of the forename above rhymes with "boy" and the "g" is as in "get", not as in "genius".) A year or so ago I saw youtube video that I can't find…