Lectures on the Early History of InstitutionsJ. Murray, 1875 - 412 pagina's |
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Pagina 99
... eldest son of the last owner , unless its devolution was otherwise determined by settlement or will . In Sir John Davis's report of the case and of the arguments before the Court , it is recited that hitherto all land in Ireland had ...
... eldest son of the last owner , unless its devolution was otherwise determined by settlement or will . In Sir John Davis's report of the case and of the arguments before the Court , it is recited that hitherto all land in Ireland had ...
Pagina 100
... eldest son . It was the actual observation of peculiar agricul- tural usages , special methods of cultivation , and abnormal rules of tenure , which mainly enabled G. L. Von Maurer to restore the German Mark to know- ledge ; and it was ...
... eldest son . It was the actual observation of peculiar agricul- tural usages , special methods of cultivation , and abnormal rules of tenure , which mainly enabled G. L. Von Maurer to restore the German Mark to know- ledge ; and it was ...
Pagina 116
... eldest male of the eldest line is never the parent of all the members , and not necessarily the first in age among them . To many of them he is merely a distant relative , and he may possibly be an infant . The sense of patriarchal ...
... eldest male of the eldest line is never the parent of all the members , and not necessarily the first in age among them . To many of them he is merely a distant relative , and he may possibly be an infant . The sense of patriarchal ...
Pagina 117
... eldest line of descent takes the place of an individual administrator . The whole process I will describe as the gradual transmutation of the Patriarch into the Chief . The general rule is that the Chief is elected , with a strong ...
... eldest line of descent takes the place of an individual administrator . The whole process I will describe as the gradual transmutation of the Patriarch into the Chief . The general rule is that the Chief is elected , with a strong ...
Pagina 122
... eldest son were only secured by calling in the exceptional rules of which the Roman Law gives the benefit to milites ( or soldiers on service ) when making their wills or regu- lating their successions , and by laying down that every ...
... eldest son were only secured by calling in the exceptional rules of which the Roman Law gives the benefit to milites ( or soldiers on service ) when making their wills or regu- lating their successions , and by laying down that every ...
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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.