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usages have been established and prevailed; and this has been done upon the principle of presumption that, in such transactions, the parties did not mean to express in writing the whole of the contract by which they intended to be bound, but a contract with reference to those known usages. Whether such a relaxation of the strictness of the common law was wisely applied, where formal instruments have been entered into, and particularly leases under seal, may well be doubted; but the contrary has been established by such authority, and the relations between landlord and tenant have been so long regulated upon the supposition that all customary obligations, not altered by the contract, are to remain in force, that it is too late to pursue a contrary course; and it would be productive of much inconvenience if this practice were now to be disturbed.
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It has long been settled, that, in commercial transactions, extrinsic evidence of custom and usage is admissible to annex incidents to written contracts, in matters with respect to which they are silent. The same rule has also been applied to contracts in other transactions of life, in which known
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The common law, indeed, does so little to prescribe the relative duties of landlord and tenant, since it leaves the latter at liberty to pursue any course of management he pleases, provided he is not guilty of waste, that it is by no means surprising that the Courts should have been favourably
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inclined to the introduction of those regulations in the mode of cultivation which custom and usage have established in each district to be the most beneficial to all parties.
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Parke B held in favour of the farm tenant, because such an implied term was the general custom. He said the following.
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said that the custom did not alter or contradict the lease, but only superadded something to it.
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We are of opinion that this custom was, by implication, imported into the lease.
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Wroot
Lincolnshire
Court of Exchequer
EWHC J61
EWHC J61
English contract law
Wroot
Lincolnshire
Wigglesworth v Dallison
Lord Mansfield
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Hutton v Warren
EWHC Exch J61
The Moorcock
Southern Foundries (1926) Ltd v Shirlaw
Liverpool CC v Irwin
[1976] UKHL 1
Johnstone v Bloomsbury HA
Scally v Southern Health Board
Malik v BCCI SA
[1997] UKHL 23
Equitable Life Assurance Society v Hyman
[2000] UKHL 39
Baird Textile Holdings Ltd v M&S plc
[2001] EWCA Civ 274
Attorney General of Belize v Belize Telecom Ltd
[2009] UKPC 10

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