▪ I. custumal, customal, n. Law.
(ˈkʌstjuːməl, ˈkʌstəməl)
[from med.L. liber custumalis: see next.]
A written collection or abstract of the customs of a manor, city, province, etc.; = customary n.
| 1570–6 Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 110 A Latine Custumall of the towne of Hyde. 1741 T. Robinson Gavelkind iii. 35 Set forth in the Custumal of those Manors. 1771 Gent. Mag. XLI. 351 The Customall of the Cinque Ports. 1875 Maine Hist. Inst. i. 6 The Custumals or manuals of feudal rules plentiful in French legal literature. 1882 Athenæum 8 Apr. 441/3 The ‘Customes of Yardley Hastings’, in 1607..is not..a manor customal, but..an account, taken on the oaths of old men, of the ecclesiastical customs of the parish. |
▪ II. ˈcustumal, a.
[ad. med.L. cos-, custumālis, corresponding to OF. costumel, f. Rom. and med.L. costuma, OF. costume custom: see -al1.]
Having to do with the customs of a city, etc.
| 1889 Sir J. Monckton in Pall Mall G. 5 Oct. 6/3, I find in the records no note of deviation from the usual custom, and as the custumal officer of the Corporation I should feel bound to advise against it. |