Lectures on the Early History of InstitutionsJ. Murray, 1875 - 412 pagina's |
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Pagina 5
... doubts respecting the authenticity of the laws of Wales . The ancient or- ganisation of the Celts of Gaul , described by Cæsar with the greatest clearness and decisiveness , appeared to have entirely disappeared from France , partly ...
... doubts respecting the authenticity of the laws of Wales . The ancient or- ganisation of the Celts of Gaul , described by Cæsar with the greatest clearness and decisiveness , appeared to have entirely disappeared from France , partly ...
Pagina 7
... doubt that these associations were not really voluntary partnerships , but groups of kinsmen ; not , however , so often organised on the ordinary type of the Village - Community as on that of the House - Community , which has recently ...
... doubt that these associations were not really voluntary partnerships , but groups of kinsmen ; not , however , so often organised on the ordinary type of the Village - Community as on that of the House - Community , which has recently ...
Pagina 12
... doubt of the great antiquity of much of their contents , the actual period at which they assumed their present shape is extremely uncertain . Mr. Whitley Stokes , one of the most eminent of living Celtic scholars , believes , upon con ...
... doubt of the great antiquity of much of their contents , the actual period at which they assumed their present shape is extremely uncertain . Mr. Whitley Stokes , one of the most eminent of living Celtic scholars , believes , upon con ...
Pagina 16
... doubt from pre - existing materials , and it may have been written continuously by some one person ; but the additions to it must be an accumulation of explanations and expositions of various dates by subsequent possessors of the ...
... doubt from pre - existing materials , and it may have been written continuously by some one person ; but the additions to it must be an accumulation of explanations and expositions of various dates by subsequent possessors of the ...
Pagina 19
... doubt much its wholly attributing the difference to native faults of Irish character . We , who are able here to examine coolly the ancient Irish law in an authentic form , can see that it is a very remarkable body of archaic law ...
... doubt much its wholly attributing the difference to native faults of Irish character . We , who are able here to examine coolly the ancient Irish law in an authentic form , can see that it is a very remarkable body of archaic law ...
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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.