Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

CONSTRUCTIVE TREASON

CONSUETUDO, ETC.

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mains, the cost of repairing or recovering it would amount to more than its value when so repaired, and consequently the insured abandons it to the underwriters. See ACT UAL TOTAL LOSS. CONSTRUCTIVE TREASON. Trea son imputed to a person by law from his con duct or course of actions, though his deeds taken severally do not amount to actual trea son. This doctrine is not known in the United States. CONSTRUCTIVE TRUST. A trust raised by construction of law, or arising by operation of law, as distinguished from an express trust. Wherever the circumstances of a transac tion are such that the person who takes the legal estate in property cannot also enjoy the beneficial interest without necessarily vio lating some established principle of equity, the court will immediately raise a construct ive tiust, and fasten it upon the conscience of the legal owner, so as to convert him into a trustee for the parties who in equity are entitled to the beneficial ^r^oyment. Hill, Trustees, 116; 1 Spence, Eq. Jur. 511. CONSTRUE. To put together; to ar range or marshal the words of an instru ment. To ascertain the meaning of lan guage by a process of anangement and in ference. CONSUETUDINARIUS. In ecclesias tical law. A ritual or book, containing the rites and forms of divine offices, or the cus toms of abbeys and monasteries. CONSUETUDINARY LAW. Custo mary law. Law derived by oral tradition from a remote antiquity. Bell. CONSUETUDINES. In old English law. Customs. Thus, consuetudines et as sisa forestce, the customs and assise of the foiest. CONSUETUDINES FEUDORUM. (Lat. feudal customs.) A compilation of the law of feuds or fiefs in Lombardy, made A. D. 1170. CONSUETUDINIBUS ET SERVICI IS. In old English law. A writ of right dose, which lay against a tenant who deforced his lord of the rent or service due to him. Beg. Orig. 159; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 151. CONSUETUDO. Lat. A custom; an established usage or practice. Co. Litt. 58. Tolls; duties; taxes. Id. 586.

CONSUETUDO ANGLICANA. The custom of England; the ancient common law, as distinguished from lex, the Roman or civil law. Consuetudo contra rationem intro ducta potius usurpatio quam consue tudo appellari debet. A custom intr^ duced against reason ought rather to be caned a "usurpation" than a "custom." Co. Litt. 113. CONSUETUDO CURIJB. The custom or practice of a court. Hardr. 141. Consuetudo debet esse certa; nam in certa pro nullS habetur. Dav. 33. A custom should be certain; for an uncertain custom is considered null. Consuetudo est altera lex. Custom la another law. 4 Coke, 21. Consuetudo est optimus interpres le gum. 2 Inst. 18. Custom is the best ex pounder of the laws. Consuetudo et communis assuetudo •incit legem non scriptam, si sit spe cialis; et interpretatur legem scriptam, si lex sit generalis. Jenk. Cent. 273. Custom and common usage overcomes the unwritten law, if it be special; and interprets the written law, if the law be general. Consuetudo ex certa causa rationabili usitata privat communem legem. A custom, grounded on a certain and reason able cause, supersedes the common law. Litt. § 169; Co. Litt. 113; Broom, Max. 919. Consuetudo, licet sit magnse aucto ritatis, nunquam tamen prsejudicat manifestse ventati. A custom, though it be of great authority, should never prejudice manifest truth. 4 Coke, 18. Consuetudo loci observanda est. Litt. § 169. The custom of a place is to be ob served. Consuetudo manerii et loci obser vanda est. 6 Coke, 67. A custom of a manor and place is to be observed. CONSUETUDO MERCATORUM. Lat. The custom of merchants, the same with lex mercatoria. Consuetudo neque injuria oriri neque tolli potest. Lofft, 340. Custom can neither arise from nor be taken away by in jury. Consuetudo non trahitur in conse quentiam. 3 Keb. 499. Custom is not

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