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## Chapter One
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There are no page markers in this text, because the format it was converted
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from had none. A chunker that needs pages will produce nothing useful here,
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and one that falls back to character position will find the chapter correctly.
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The chapter itself concerns the difference between a right and a habit. A
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right can be pleaded; a habit can only be described. The men in these records
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pleaded habits as though they were rights, and the courts, with a patience
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that is easy to underestimate, let them.
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## Chapter Two
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The second chapter takes the same question into a period where the records are
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better. Better records make the problem worse rather than easier, because they
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show how much of what looked like custom was in fact a settlement of a dispute
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that had gone the other way a generation earlier.
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Custom, in this reading, is the name given to the outcome of a quarrel nobody
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alive remembers having. It is stable exactly as long as the memory of the
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quarrel is dead and the conditions that produced the settlement persist. When
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either changes, custom turns out to have been a treaty all along.
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## Chapter Three
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What remains is to say what this means for the wider argument, which is less
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than it might appear. The valley was not typical. It was chosen because its
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documents survive, and documents survive where somebody had a reason to keep
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them, which is itself a fact about the place.
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