Meanings
plural custumals
- historicalA survey of a medieval English manor, listing each tenant and the customs under which the tenancy was held.
However, it may have been too unwieldy for a large and growing city, and its business therefore narrowed as the other courts developed. According to an early thirteenth-century custumal, there were three chief folkmoots a year: […]
2003, John Hamilton Baker, The Oxford History of the Laws of England: c. 900-1216, page 819
Origin
- Late Latincustumale
- Englishcustumal
Borrowed from Late Latin custumale (adjective, neuter form of custumalis), used as an adjectival noun. Attested to 1576.
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