Customs may be abolished or extinguished by act of Parliament.\u00a0 If the act of parliament is repugnant to the custom, the custom may be treated as impliedly abrogated.\u00a0 A custom may not be asserted, which is against an Act of Parliament.<\/p>\n
Act of parliament may confirm a custom and transfer it into a statutory right.\u00a0 The statutory right being superior, it merges in the custom.\u00a0 If the statute is repealed the custom is revived.<\/p>\n
A custom is not destroyed by being embodied in by-laws of an ancient corporation.\u00a0 It is not destroyed by lapse of time during which it is not exercised. A custom which has existed at period long past may be held to still subsist notwithstanding that there is no recent act of enjoyment.<\/p>\n
Customs may be abolished or extinguished by act of Parliament.\u00a0 If the act of parliament is repugnant to the custom, the custom may be treated as impliedly abrogated.\u00a0 A custom may not be asserted, which is against an Act of Parliament.<\/p>\n
Act of parliament may confirm a custom and transfer it into a statutory right.\u00a0 The statutory right being superior, it merges in the custom.\u00a0 If the statute is repealed the custom is revived.<\/p>\n
A custom is not destroyed by being embodied in by-laws of an ancient corporation.\u00a0 It is not destroyed by lapse of time during which it is not exercised. A custom which has existed at period long past may be held to still subsist notwithstanding that there is no recent act of enjoyment.<\/p>\n\n
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Nature of Custom Custom is a rule or a principle that has existed in fact or by presumption from time immemorial. \u00a0It may have the force of law in a particular area notwithstanding that it might be of variance with common law. Customs may supplement common law in respect of the matter concerned and be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29472"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30152,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29472\/revisions\/30152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}