Note 124 — Chapter VIII · CUSTOM.

“If any general custom were directly against the law of God, or if any statute were made directly against it, ... the custom and statute were void.” Doctor and Student, Dial. I. ch. 6. See also Bonham’s Case, 8 Co. Rep. 118a; Coke’s 2nd Inst. 587; Hobart, 87; Blackstone, I. 91; Pollock and Maitland, History of English Law, I. 491; Pollock, Jurisprudence, pp. 262–267.