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It is true, that if the affection or aptness of the children be extraordinary, then it is good not to cross it; but generally the precept is good, optimum elige, suave et facile illud faciet consuetudo.
The Essays 2007
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Educatio altera natura, alterat animos et voluntatem, atque utinam (inquit) liberorum nostrorum mores non ipsi perderemus, quum infantiam statim deliciis solvimus: mollior ista educatio, quam indulgentiam vocamus, nervos omnes, et mentis et corporis frangit; fit ex his consuetudo, inde natura.
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Vnde accidit turpis consuetudo inter eos quod filius scilicet ducit aliquando omnes vxores patris sui, excepta matre.
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Illic omnes nudi incedunt, et ferè omnia sunt singulis communia, nec vtuntur priuatis clauibus siue seris, imo et omnes mulieres sunt communes omnibus et singulis viris, dummodo violentia non inferatur: Sed et peior est ijs consuetudo, quòd libentèr comedunt teneras carnes humanas: vnde et negotiatores adferunt eis crassos infantes venales: quod si non satis pingues afferuntur, eos saginant sicut nos vitulum, siue porcum.
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Quorum consuetudo talis est, vt cum alicuius pater moritur, præ dolore quasi vnam corrigiam in signum lamenti ab aure vsque aurem de facie sua leuet.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Est autem consuetudo in terra illa, quòd corpora mortua non traduntur sepulturæ, sed in campis dimittuntur, et ex calore Solis citò resoluuntur, et sic consumantur: Corpora autem trium fratrum praedictorum per 14. dies illic in fuerore Solis iacuerunt, et ita recentia et redolentia inuenta fuerunt sicut illa die quandò martirizati erant: quod videntes Christiani qui in illa terra habitabant, praedicta corpora ceperunt, et honorificè sepelierunt.
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Quorum consuetudo talis est, vt cum alicuius pater moritur, pr� dolore quasi vnam corrigiam in signum lamenti ab aure vsque aurem de facie sua leuet.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Colonia, & mercandisam suam de illis duobus solidis, [Marginal note: Antiqua consuetudo Gildhall� Coloniensium Londini.] quos solebant dare de Gildhalia sua London, & de omnibus alijs consuetudinibus & demandis, qu� pertinent ad nos in London,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Agatarchide, didicimus; aut ranis, aut cancris mannis, aut squillis gibbis, qu� res hodi� nota est, vulgi propterea ludibrijs exponere pr鎠umamus, a quibus tamen edulijs, in totum nostra consuetudo abhorret.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Quia peruetus est Insul� consuetudo, vt maritimi in hanc glaciem, ab Historicis infernalem factam, man� phocas, seu vitulos marinos captum eant, ac vesperi incolumes redeant.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
chained_bear commented on the word consuetudo
"'As for the law, God help us: every manor is a law to itself, and the courts always say consuetudo loci est observanda... And the consuetudos differ amazingly, and always have, from one manor to another. Even in Woolcombe Common and Simmon's Lea, which almost touch, the commons of piscary and of estovers are quite unlike, and here in Simmon's Lea there is no common of turbary at all. Then there are all sorts of other rights, like bite of grass and fire-bote, hey-bote and house-bote, underwood, sweepage and so on, different from parish to parish but all strictly ruled by custom time out of mind and giving a man a place in the village...'"
--P. O'Brian, The Yellow Admiral, 32
March 19, 2008