The Quarterly Review, Volume 108William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1860 |
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Pagina 135
... chiefs . They generally reside in different parts of the country , and have a species of civil jurisdiction over their respective neighbourhoods . A few are always to be found near the person of the chief , but on any occasion of ...
... chiefs . They generally reside in different parts of the country , and have a species of civil jurisdiction over their respective neighbourhoods . A few are always to be found near the person of the chief , but on any occasion of ...
Pagina 136
... chief and his council , and this council forms the great law - court of the tribe , in which the chief sits as judge , and decrees the execution of his sentences . There is no letter of the law to appeal to , but a collection of ...
... chief and his council , and this council forms the great law - court of the tribe , in which the chief sits as judge , and decrees the execution of his sentences . There is no letter of the law to appeal to , but a collection of ...
Pagina 137
... chief , assisted by his ' judicial committee , ' where the old Kaffir lawyers practise , whose profound know- ledge of precedents has raised them to the highest dignity of their profession . The chief forms his decision upon the result ...
... chief , assisted by his ' judicial committee , ' where the old Kaffir lawyers practise , whose profound know- ledge of precedents has raised them to the highest dignity of their profession . The chief forms his decision upon the result ...
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Tribes Presented to both Houses of Parliament | 120 |
Memoir of the Life of the late Ary Scheffer By | 162 |
A Handbook for Travellers in Wiltshire Dorsetshire | 200 |
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