Comment Habit is considered to be an individual's usual method or manner of doing things.
Routine practice refers to a group or institution's habit.
See McCormick, Evidence , 3rd Ed., 162. Thus, we speak of a person's habit and the routine practice or custom of an institution. Mississippi has long recognized that under appropriate circumstances habit and custom are relevant evidence. Under Rule 406, evidence of habit or routine practice can be used as circumstantial evidence. A party may introduce evidence of a person's habit to imply that he probably acted in this instance in conformity with his habit.