customariness

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The Association also called for local, elected committees to inspect all merchants and customhouses to detect and denounce violations of the agreement.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Portuguese sailors discovered new routes to the Orient around Africa; Arab ports and customhouses ceased to be significant in world trade.

From Time Magazine Archive

The country is divided into collection districts, in each of which there are one or more ports of entry and customhouses at which all imported goods must be landed.

From Government in the United States National, State and Local by Garner, James Wilford

In the Dominican Republic disturbances were frequent, notwithstanding the fact that American officials were in charge of the customhouses and by their presence were expected to exert a quieting influence.

From Hispanic Nations of the New World; a chronicle of our southern neighbors by Shepherd, William R. (William Robert)

In consequence, these goods are twice borne upon the registers of the Turkish customhouses, which, be it observed, are exceedingly badly kept.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various