The 'coutume de Normandie' was, at a much later period, only to be found in the old 'grand coutumier.
But, as it is laid down in the Coutume d' Orléans (Tit.
Gâteau et mauvaise coutume se doivent rompre=--A cake and a bad custom are fated to be broken.
According to the Coutume de Loudunois, a mother who killed her child was burned.
From that time the system was regulated by the Coutumede Paris, by royal edicts, or by ordinances of the intendant.
The superior council of Canada gave judgment in civil and criminal cases according to the coutume de Paris, and below it there were inferior courts for the judicial districts of Quebec, Three Rivers and Montreal.
The chief of them were: in the 14th century, the Stylus Vetus Curiae Parlamenti of Guillaume de Breuil; the Tres ancienne coutume de Bretagne; the Grand Coutumier de France, or Coutumier de Charles VI.
Cela se voit par experience; et s'il y en a d'ineffacables a la coutume, il y en a aussi de la coutume ineffacables a la nature.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coutume" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
