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For the benefit of the uninitiated let me say that lawyers, deluded or not, overwhelmingly believe that with the exception of constitutions and of statutes enacted by legislatures (and rules under them), precedent is what the law is made of in the United States; that the law existed before written language in the tradition of “customs that runneth not to the contrary’ and continues to thrive in the printed decisions; that the statutes themselves remain unsettled until rounded out by precedent; that precedents may become so venerable as to become platitudes but may also be as fresh as the undried ink on today's appellate court decision; and that when a lawyer searches for as recent a decision as he can find, in a jurisdiction as near as possible, on facts as close to his client's case as possible, never overruled or modified, and pronouncing the law as clearly as possible, he is doing what he should be doing and might well be guilty of malpractice for failing to do so.
OED2e offers a quotation dating from 1610: There runneth forth into the sea a certaine shelfe or slang, like unto an out-thrust tongue.
Droit du seigneur has been the custom for so long that the mind of man runneth not to the contrary.
customs that runneth not to the contrary.
Perhaps the writer was not serious, because he had a plural subject with a singular verb, runneth , in the relative clause.