What is customary law?

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    It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.
    Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)

    They are free, but not entirely free. For Law is despot over them, and they fear him much more than your men fear you.
    Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)