France until the French Revolution. In the north of France were the Pays de coutumes ('customary countries'), where customary laws were in force, while in the...

Norman law (Norman: Coûteume de Normaundie, French: Coutume de Normandie, Latin: Lex Normanica) refers to the customary law of the Duchy of Normandy which...

In an edition of 1762, the Traité des fiefs sur la Coutume de Poitou (Treaty of Fiefs on the Coutume of Poitou) stipulates that counts, viscounts, or barons...

disadvantage the growers of all the other southern provinces." The Grande Coutume (in English the Great Custom) was a principal export tariff imposed by...

land and succession law, English law is of little relevance. The Norman coutume is too far removed from English law for English law to be a useful tool...

The Coutumes of Beauvaisis is a book on medieval French law composed by Philippe de Beaumanoir at the end of the 13th century in Old French prose. The...

sovereignty within the posts and for trading privileges in exchange for fees or coutumes paid annually to the local chiefs for the use of the land. The arrangement...

basis of the legal systems of both Bailiwicks is Norman customary law (Coutume) rather than the English Common Law, although elements of the latter have...

the council in their respective districts. In 1664, the Custom of Paris (coutume de Paris) was formally set as the main source of law for civil law in France's...

conquest of New France in 1758–60, the French colony of Canada followed the coutume de Paris, a codified version of French customary law; and French statute...