Category: C

A term that is used in medical jurisprudence where the usual method of treatment in a given community and as practiced by the ethical and well trained physicians of that community.

Lat. A custodian, guard, keeper, or warden; a magistrate.

Such as are due by ancient custom or prescription only.

The keeper of the writs. A principal clerk belonging to the courts of queen’s bench and common pleas, whose office it was to keep the writs returnable into those courls. The office was abolished by 1 Wm. IV. c. 5.

guardians of the peace. 1 Bl. Comm. 349

According to custom or usage; founded on, or growing out of, or dependent on, a custom, (q. v.)

Writs for the admitting and removing of guardians.

See COURT- BARON

In Roman law. Guard- dians; observers; inspectors. Persons who acted as inspectors of elections, and who counted the votes given. Tayl. Civil Law, 193. In old English law. keepers; guardians; conservators.

Such as accords with the rules, customs, and usages of the port where the discharge is made.