Property is in the custody of the law when it has been lawfully taken by authority of legal process, and remains in the possession of a public officer (as, a […]

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 […]

A system of customs or rules relative to bills of exchange, partnership , and other mercantile matters, and which, under the name of the “lex mercatoria,” or “law-merchant,” has been […]

A custom of intestacy in the province of York similar to that of London. Abolished by 19 & 20 Vict. c. 94.

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 […]

One whose occupation it is, as the agent of others, to arrange entries and other custom-house papers, or transact business, at any port of entry , relating to the importation […]

According to custom or usage; founded on, or growing out of, or dependent on, a custom, (q. v.)

See COURT- BARON

Such as accords with the rules, customs, and usages of the port where the discharge is made.

Estates which owe their origin and existence to the custom of the manor in which they are held. 2 Bl. Comm. 149.

In English law . A variety of copyhold estate, the evidences of the title to which are to be found upon the court rolls ; the entries declaring the holding […]

See INTERPRETATION

A term that is used in medical jurisprudence where the usual method of treatment in a given community and as practiced by the ethical and well trained physicians of that […]

Such as are due by ancient custom or prescription only.

Tenants holding by custom of the manor.

Custom shall be taken [is to be construed] strictly. Jenk. Cent. 83.

MARGIN posted by a FUTURES COMMISSION MERCHANT or client with a CLEARING MEMBER to cover the requirements of trades that have been executed and temporarily covered by the member

This term is usually applied to those taxes which are payable upon goods and merchandise imported or exported. Story, Const.

The statute 16 & 17 Vict. c. 107. which has been frequently amended. See 2 Steph. Comm. 503.

A court of the United States , created by act of congress in 1909, to hear and determine appeals from the decisions of the revenue officers in the Imposition and […]

the term that applies to money or property that is exempt from duties, and customs taxes.

An invoice for commercial export that customs needs. It has the description , quantity, selling price , freight, insurance, and packing cost. The delivery terms and payment are also listed. […]

These are the laws that govern the exemption or the payment of duties that are put on imported goods.

the lien or the right to hold property by a government on articles for which duty is due and has not been paid.

Certain particular customs, peculiar to that city, with regard to trade, apprentices, widows, orphans and a variety of other matters; contrary to the general law of the land , but […]