'… conventions, understandings, habits or practices, which, though they may regulate the conduct of officials are not in reality laws at all since they are not enforced by the courts.'
Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (1885)
Dicey argued that conventions are merely descriptive rules of behaviour and are are not binding in law.
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