GRAND COUTUMIER
\ɡɹˈand kˈa͡ʊtəmɪə], \ɡɹˈand kˈaʊtəmɪə], \ɡ_ɹ_ˈa_n_d k_ˈaʊ_t_ə_m_ɪ__ə]\
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A collection of customs, laws, aud forms of procedure in use inearly times in France. See COUTUHIER.
By Henry Campbell Black
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Two collections of laws bore this title. The one, also called the Coutumier of France, is a collection of the customs, usages, and forms of practice, which had been used from time immemorial in France: the other, called the Coutumier de Normandie, which indeed made a part of the former, with some alterations, was composed about the fourteenth of Henry II., in 1229, and is a collection of the Norman laws not as they stood at the Conquest of England, by William the Conqueror, but some time afterwards, and contains many provisions, probably borrowed from the old:English or Saxon laws. Hale's Hist. C. L. c. 6.
By John Bouvier
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