Odger's English Common Law

90 CUSTOMS.
expanded and enlarged so as to meet the wants and require-
ments of trade in the varying circumstances of commerce, the
effect of which is that it approves and adopts from time to
time those usages of merchants which are found necessary for
the convenience of trade." *
1 Per Bigham, J., in Bdelstein v. Schuler, [1902] 2 K. B. at p. 154 ; and see
Williamt v. Ayrei (1877), 3 App. Cas. at p. 143 ; and Bechuanaland Exploration
Co. v. London Trading Sank, [1898] 2 Q. B. 658. These cases, to some extent at
all events, overrule the decision in Crouch v. Cridit Fonder (1873), L. R. 8 Q. B.
374.
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