📙 Excerpt from Annales du Cercle Archéologique de Mons, 1871, Vol. 10Les coutumes étaient des lois que le peuple s'était données à lui - même; basées sur des principes de justice et d'équité elles tiraient leur autorité d'une longue et constante pratique. Elles n'étaient pas écrites, elles vivaient dans le souvenir et se trans mettaient religieusement.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.