Lectures on the Early History of InstitutionsJ. Murray, 1875 - 412 pagina's |
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... become more obscured ; but the rc- examination of the written evidence respecting ancient Teutonic life and custom proceeds without intermis- sion , and incidentally much light has been thrown on the early history of property by the ...
... become more obscured ; but the rc- examination of the written evidence respecting ancient Teutonic life and custom proceeds without intermis- sion , and incidentally much light has been thrown on the early history of property by the ...
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... . ' But an Irish Brehon could scarcely make any distinct assertion on the subject , since fasting had now become a specific ordinance of the Christian Church , and its conditions and spiritual LECT . II . IRISH AND HINDOO LAW . 41.
... . ' But an Irish Brehon could scarcely make any distinct assertion on the subject , since fasting had now become a specific ordinance of the Christian Church , and its conditions and spiritual LECT . II . IRISH AND HINDOO LAW . 41.
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... become the exclusive source of law ; but still in all Continental countries other authorities of various kinds are occa- sionally referred to , among which are the texts of the Roman Corpus Juris , commentaries on Codes and other bodies ...
... become the exclusive source of law ; but still in all Continental countries other authorities of various kinds are occa- sionally referred to , among which are the texts of the Roman Corpus Juris , commentaries on Codes and other bodies ...
Pagina 49
... become more protracted and complex than ever . The truth is that the facts of human nature , with which Courts of Justice have chiefly to deal , are far obscurer and more intricately involved than the facts of physical nature ; and the ...
... become more protracted and complex than ever . The truth is that the facts of human nature , with which Courts of Justice have chiefly to deal , are far obscurer and more intricately involved than the facts of physical nature ; and the ...
Pagina 62
... become professional com- monplaces , for two reasons . They slur over a very instructive fact , the great unmalleability of all bodies of law ; and they obscure an interesting and yet un- settled problem , the origin of the Canon law ...
... become professional com- monplaces , for two reasons . They slur over a very instructive fact , the great unmalleability of all bodies of law ; and they obscure an interesting and yet un- settled problem , the origin of the Canon law ...
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Lectures on the Early History of Institutions, Volume 1875 Henry Sumner Maine Volledige weergave - 1875 |
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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.