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BUT though this is the moft likely foundation of this collection of maxims and cuftoms, yet the maxims and cuftoms, fo collected, are of higher antiquity than memory or hiftory can reach: nothing being more difficult than to afcertain the precife beginning and firft fpring of an antient and long eftablifhed cuftom.
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Whence it is that in our law the goodnefs of a cuftom depends upon it's having been ufed time out of mind; or, in the folemnity of our legal phrafe, time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.
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This it is that gives it it's weight and authority; and of this nature are the maxims and cuftom which compofe the common law, or lex non fcripta, of the kingdom.
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In - deed, the cuftom of eating them is an infuperable bar to their admiflion into fociety;
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Tet it is probable that they have fome law or cuftom by which they are governed: fiDr while we lay here we faw a young man buried alive in the earth; and ic was for theft as £ur as we could underftand from them.
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They have a fingular cuftom of putting every thing you give them to their heads, by way of thanks.
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After each moudiful, as was their cuftom, we fipped fome of the fpirit diftilled from rice out of a porcelain cup, about the fize of an egg* We likewife ate fome rice and other anicles, prepared with fugar, ufing golden fpoons for the purpofe, iimilar to thofe with us.
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The cuftom dues are eight per cent, on the prefumed fale price, and the aflefTment of them depends on the chief cuftom-officer.
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The cuftom of tattowing, or punduring the ikin, prevails.
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My friend Attago never failed to do it; but whether out of refped to me, or from cuftom, I will not pretend to fay; though I rather think from the latter, as he was not fingular in the pradice.
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