Mores

• “Woe unto you, O torrent of human custom! Who shall stay your course? When will you ever run dry? How long will you carry down the sons of Eve into that vast and hideous ocean.”

• “Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.”

• “No degree of antiquity can give sanction to a usage bad in itself.”

• “In many cases a party undertakes to prove a custom from the time of legal memory, the reign of Richard the Second; but that proof is generally established by evidence of acts done at a much later period, and frequently no evidence is given beyond the present century.”

• “Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.”

• “Modus et conventio vineunt legem: Custom and agreement overrule law.”

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Mores across IJR