"In many cases a party undertakes to prove a custom from the time of legal memory, the reign of Richard the Second; but that proof is generally established by evidence of acts done at a much later period, and frequently no evidence is given beyond the present century."
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Lord Kenyon, C.J., Withnell v. Gartham (1795), 6 T. R. 397.
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