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... ESQ . SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA IN THE LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED IN RECOLLECTION OF A LONG OFFICIAL CONNECTION AND STILL LONGER FRIENDSHIP PREFACE . IN the Lectures printed in this Volume an.
... ESQ . SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA IN THE LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED IN RECOLLECTION OF A LONG OFFICIAL CONNECTION AND STILL LONGER FRIENDSHIP PREFACE . IN the Lectures printed in this Volume an.
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... Celts had really passed under the crushing machinery of Roman legislation . I do not , indeed , mean to say that this darkness has not recently given signs of lifting . It has been re- 6 CELTIC INSTITUTIONS . LECT . 1 . cognised that.
... Celts had really passed under the crushing machinery of Roman legislation . I do not , indeed , mean to say that this darkness has not recently given signs of lifting . It has been re- 6 CELTIC INSTITUTIONS . LECT . 1 . cognised that.
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... legislation , but by a process which we may perceive still in operation in various communities - the juridical interpretation of authoritative texts by successive generations of learned men . Now , the largest collection of Irish legal ...
... legislation , but by a process which we may perceive still in operation in various communities - the juridical interpretation of authoritative texts by successive generations of learned men . Now , the largest collection of Irish legal ...
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... legislative power ; the other has been the influence , direct and indirect , of the Roman Empire , drawing with it an activity in legislation unknown to the parts of the world which were never subjected to it . Now , Ireland is allowed ...
... legislative power ; the other has been the influence , direct and indirect , of the Roman Empire , drawing with it an activity in legislation unknown to the parts of the world which were never subjected to it . Now , Ireland is allowed ...
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... with that repeat- edly condemned by Anglo - Irish legislation , and re- peatedly noticed by English observers of Ireland down to the early part of the seventeenth century C 18 ( ENGLISH CENSURES OF BREHON LAW . LECT .
... with that repeat- edly condemned by Anglo - Irish legislation , and re- peatedly noticed by English observers of Ireland down to the early part of the seventeenth century C 18 ( ENGLISH CENSURES OF BREHON LAW . LECT .
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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.