local usage
A practice or method regularly observed in a particular place, sometimes considered by a court in interpreting a document. UCC § 1-205(2). See CUSTOM AND USAGE. [Cases: Customs and Usages 9. C.J.S. Customs and Usages § 15.]
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local usage
local usage 地方习惯；地方惯例 指在某一特定区域内为人们所遵守的惯常做法和行为方式。因此，在某些情况下，法院在解释文件时要对之加以考虑。 (→custom and usage；local custom)
general usage
A usage that prevails throughout a country or particular trade or profession; a usage that is not restricted to a local area. [Cases: Customs and Usages 1. C.J.S. Customs and Usages § 1.]
local custom
A custom that prevails in some defined locality only, such as a city or county, and constitutes a source of law for that place only. — Also termed particular custom; special custom. [Cases: Customs and Usages 1–22. C.J.S. Customs and Usages §§ 1–48.]
vara
VARA.abbr. VISUAL ARTISTS RIGHTS ACT. vara (vah-rah).Spanish-Am. law. A measure of length equal to about 33 inches. • Local usage varies, so that it may sometimes be more and sometimes less than 33 inches. In Mexican land grants, the measure is equal to 32.9927 inches. The term is often found in old land grants in
hide
hide, n. Hist. 1. In England, a measure of land consisting in as much as could be worked with one plow, variously estimated as 30 to 120 acres but probably determined by local usage. • A hide was anciently employed as a unit of taxation. Cf. CARUCATE. 2. As much land as would support one
custom
custom, n. 1. A practice that by its common adoption and long, unvarying habit has come to have the force of law. See USAGE. [Cases: Customs and Usages 1. C.J.S. Customs and Usages § 1.] — customary, adj. conventional custom. A custom that operates only indirectly through the medium of agreements, so that it is
lex marityma
lex marityma (leks mair-i-tee-m[schwa]). Hist. The body of customs, usage, and local rules governing seagoing commerce that developed in the maritime countries of medieval Europe.