habit

habit
A customary method of doing a thing. See 29 Am J2d Ev § 303. Customary conduct, deriving as a tendency arising from frequent repetition. Knickerbocker Life Ins. Co. v Foley, 105 US 350, 26 L Ed 1055. When a person has repeatedly acted in a particular way at intervals, whether regular or irregular, for such length of time as that we can predicate with reasonable assurance that he will continue so to act, we may affirm that this is his habit. State ex rel. Atty. Gen. v Savage, 89 Ala 1, 7 So 183. It would be incorrect to say that a man has a habit of anything from a single act. A habit of early rising, for instance, could not be affirmed of one because he was once seen abroad before sunrise; nor could intemperate habits be imputed to him because his appearance and actions might indicate a night of excessive indulgence. Knickerbocker Life Ins. Co. v Foley (US) 15 Otto 350, 26 L Ed 1055.

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