Law. [from med.L. liber custumalis: see next.] A written collection or abstract of the customs of a manor, city, province, etc.; = CUSTOMARY sb.
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. Gentl. 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 April, 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.
