Usage
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Usage
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Meanings, Synonyms, Etymology, Translations and More
Meaning of Usage
The practice of customs that has endured for a long time. It must be notorious, certain and, above all things, reasonable and not offend against the intention of any legislative enactment. See Custom.
Usage Alternative Definition
Long and uniform practice. In its most extensive meaning, this term includes "custom" and "prescription," though it differs from them. In the narrower sense, it is applied to the habits, modes, and course of dealing which are observed in trade generally, as to all mercantile transactions, or to some particular branches of trade. See 9 Wend. (N. Y.) 349. A usage must be generally known and established, and so well settled and so uniformly acted upon, as to raise a fair presumption that it was known to both parties, and that they contracted with reference to and in conformity with it. 207 111. App. 325.
Synonyms of Usage
noun
application
conduct
consuetude
consuetudo
convention
custom
customary use
disposition
employment
established custom
established practice
fashion
fixed procedure
form
formula
habit
habitual use
habitude
management
manner
method
mode
mos
operation
practice
prescription
prevalence
routine
service
style
system
tradition
treatment
use
utilization
vogue
wear
wont Associated Concepts: common usage
custom and usage
general usageforeign phrases: Consuetudo ex certa causa rationabili usitata privat communem legem
A custom
based on a certain and reasonable cause
supersedes the common law
Optimus interpres rerum usus
Usage is the best interpreter of things
In contractibus
tacite insunt quae sunt moriset consuetudinis
ln contracts
matters of custom and usage are tacitly implied
Non ex opinionibus singulorum
sed ex communi usu
nomina exaudiri debent
The names of things ought to be understood
not according to individual opinions
but according to common usage
Obtemperandum est consuetudini rationabili tanquam legi
A reasonable custom is to be obeyed like law
Quae praeter consuetudinem et morem majorumfiunt nequeplacent neque recta videntur
Things which are done contrary to the custom and manner of our ancestors neither please nor appear right
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