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   Coutume
   Coutumes are legal customs of France. During the Middle Ages and early modern period the French kings and their vassals constantly asserted the importance and, in effect, primacy of customary law, especially in the lands north and west of Paris. The area where the French customary law (droit coutum...
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   coutume
   (French: `custom`), in French law, the body of law in force before the Revolution of 1789 in northern and central France. The word is also used in ...
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