What happens when the written law says one thing and everyone's habit says another?

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Common law vs code-based systems: why one leans on precedent and the other on statutes Do laws shape how people behave or mostly ratify what they already do? How did everyday custom turn into law that courts will actually enforce? Who decides what counts as law before any court has ruled on it? Is international law actually law if there is no world police? Does the fact that everyone believes something is illegal make it illegal? What makes one legal rule outrank another when both are perfectly valid? Who gets to say what an ambiguous legal rule always meant? When a case fits the letter of a rule but defeats its purpose which one wins? How much of what we call law is judges filling gaps the legislature left?