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In other things they governed themselves by a certain "coutumier," a medley of bizarre laws which they had originated among themselves.
The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century Clarence Henry Haring 1922
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Nous sommes dans les mêmes configurations lors de la traite négrière, le chef coutumier et le négrier.
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Le droit coutumier tend donc à prévaloir sur les dispositions de la Constitution.
D��put��s du" changement" Sortez-nous de l'ins��curit�� fonci��re 2007
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Through what is known as the Quebec Act, Carleton got the colonial office to reinstate in Canada "le droit coutumier" and religious freedom in 1774.
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The authors of the Napoleonic Code were not carried away by the doctrines of the school of natural right, as were German legislators, but they sought in the countries de droit coutumier and in the jurisprudence of parliaments guides to make the Roman written law, the Germanic law, and the law of the land more harmonious with the requirements of the times.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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La mention, chez d'anciens ecrivains, de certaines traditions patriarcales ou mosaiques, ne prouve pas l'existence du Pentateuque, et une nation peut avoir un droit coutumier sans code ecrit.
Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881
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