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Pagina 91
... Gavelkind , ' the caput cognationis . Not only was the Tribe or Sept named after this eponymous ancestor , but the territory which it occu- pied also derived from him the name which was in commonest use . I make this remark chiefly ...
... Gavelkind , ' the caput cognationis . Not only was the Tribe or Sept named after this eponymous ancestor , but the territory which it occu- pied also derived from him the name which was in commonest use . I make this remark chiefly ...
Pagina 98
... , be doubted that at the period to which the tracts are an index much land was held throughout Ireland under rules or customs savouring of the ancient LECT . IV . TANISTRY AND GAVELKIND . 99 collective THE TRIBE AND THE LAND.
... , be doubted that at the period to which the tracts are an index much land was held throughout Ireland under rules or customs savouring of the ancient LECT . IV . TANISTRY AND GAVELKIND . 99 collective THE TRIBE AND THE LAND.
Pagina 99
... Gavelkind . The system of inheritance here called Gavelkind is thus described : When a landowning member of an Irish Sept died , its chief made a re - distribution of all the lands of the Sept. He did not divide the estate of the dead ...
... Gavelkind . The system of inheritance here called Gavelkind is thus described : When a landowning member of an Irish Sept died , its chief made a re - distribution of all the lands of the Sept. He did not divide the estate of the dead ...
Pagina 100
... Gavelkind belongs to a class of institu tions very common in the infancy of law ; it is a contrivance for securing comparative equality among the joint proprietors of a common fund . The re- distribution here takes place at the death of ...
... Gavelkind belongs to a class of institu tions very common in the infancy of law ; it is a contrivance for securing comparative equality among the joint proprietors of a common fund . The re- distribution here takes place at the death of ...
Pagina 124
... Gavelkind of Kent and some others of merely local importance . This part of the change took place at a remote epoch , and its circumstances are involved in much obscurity ; and we know little more of it LECT . V. CONTRAST BETWEEN FRANCE ...
... Gavelkind of Kent and some others of merely local importance . This part of the change took place at a remote epoch , and its circumstances are involved in much obscurity ; and we know little more of it LECT . V. CONTRAST BETWEEN FRANCE ...
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Pagina 348 - If a determinate human superior, not in the habit of obedience to a like superior, receive habitual obedience from the bulk of a given society, that determinate superior is sovereign in that society...
Pagina 371 - Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action ; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational.
Pagina 18 - It is a rule of right unwritten, but delivered by tradition from one to another, in which oftentimes there appeareth great show of equity, in determining the right between party and party, but in many things repugning quite both to God's law and man's...
Pagina 22 - It is better to do so," said Patrick. It was then that all the professors of the sciences in Erin were assembled, and each of them exhibited his art before Patrick, in the presence of every chief in Erin. It was then...
Pagina 300 - Notice precedes every distress in the case of the inferior grades, except it be by persons of distinction or upon persons of distinction. Fasting precedes distress in their case. He who does not give a pledge to fasting is an evader of all ; he who disregards all things shall not be paid by God or man.
Pagina 359 - A despot with a disturbed brain is the sole conceivable example of such Sovereignty. The vast mass of influences, which we may call, for shortness, moral, perpetually shapes, limits, or forbids the actual direction of the forces of society by its Sovereign.
Pagina 322 - Also property which she may have acquired by inheritance, purchase, partition, seizure, or finding, are denominated by Menu, and the rest, woman's property.