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... feudalism , hung between the Highland institutions and the shrewd investigating genius of the Scottish Low- landers . A thick mist of feudal law hid the ancient constitution of Irish society from English observa- tion , and led to ...
... feudalism , hung between the Highland institutions and the shrewd investigating genius of the Scottish Low- landers . A thick mist of feudal law hid the ancient constitution of Irish society from English observa- tion , and led to ...
Pagina 6
... feudal rules had been betrayed ; and the same emi- nent antiquary , in an appendix to his edition of the Scottish chronicler , Fordun , published in 1872 , con- firms evidence which had reached me in considerable quantities from private ...
... feudal rules had been betrayed ; and the same emi- nent antiquary , in an appendix to his edition of the Scottish chronicler , Fordun , published in 1872 , con- firms evidence which had reached me in considerable quantities from private ...
Pagina 74
... feudal and territorial principality of the Bourbons . ( Freeman , loc . cit . ) We may bring home to ourselves the trans- formation of idea in another way . England was once the country which Englishmen inhabited . English- men are now ...
... feudal and territorial principality of the Bourbons . ( Freeman , loc . cit . ) We may bring home to ourselves the trans- formation of idea in another way . England was once the country which Englishmen inhabited . English- men are now ...
Pagina 77
... Feudal Monarchy was an exact counterpart of a Feudal Manor , but the reason of the correspondence is only now beginning to dawn upon us , which is , that both of them were in their origin bodies of assumed kinsmen settled on land and ...
... Feudal Monarchy was an exact counterpart of a Feudal Manor , but the reason of the correspondence is only now beginning to dawn upon us , which is , that both of them were in their origin bodies of assumed kinsmen settled on land and ...
Pagina 80
... feudalism entirely crushed it even in Western Europe . It is a remarkable fact that assemblages of kinsmen , almost precisely the counterpart of the House - Communities surviving among the Sclavonians , were observed by M. Dupin , in ...
... feudalism entirely crushed it even in Western Europe . It is a remarkable fact that assemblages of kinsmen , almost precisely the counterpart of the House - Communities surviving among the Sclavonians , were observed by M. Dupin , in ...
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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.