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... rules by which civil life is still governed in the Western World . The Ancient Irish Law , the so - called Brehon Law , has been for the most part bitterly condemned by the few writers who have noticed it ; and , after gradually losing ...
... rules by which civil life is still governed in the Western World . The Ancient Irish Law , the so - called Brehon Law , has been for the most part bitterly condemned by the few writers who have noticed it ; and , after gradually losing ...
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... rules ; and , independently of the publications to which I am about to direct attention , the group of Irish scholars , distinguished by remarkable sobriety of thought , which has succeeded a school almost in- famous for the unchastened ...
... rules ; and , independently of the publications to which I am about to direct attention , the group of Irish scholars , distinguished by remarkable sobriety of thought , which has succeeded a school almost in- famous for the unchastened ...
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... rule , when a tenant holding by base tenure died , the lord succeeded in the first instance to his land , a rule of which there are plain traces in our English law of copyhold . But it is expressly stated that , in the case of an ...
... rule , when a tenant holding by base tenure died , the lord succeeded in the first instance to his land , a rule of which there are plain traces in our English law of copyhold . But it is expressly stated that , in the case of an ...
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... rules belonging to what in our modern legal language we should call the Law of Distress . Now , in very ancient bodies of rules the Law of Distress , as I shall endeavour to explain hereafter , is undoubtedly entitled to a very ...
... rules belonging to what in our modern legal language we should call the Law of Distress . Now , in very ancient bodies of rules the Law of Distress , as I shall endeavour to explain hereafter , is undoubtedly entitled to a very ...
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... rules . In what follows I attempt to draw inferences only when the meaning and drift of the text seem reasonably certain , and I have avoided some promising lines of enquiry which would lead us through passages of doubtful sig ...
... rules . In what follows I attempt to draw inferences only when the meaning and drift of the text seem reasonably certain , and I have avoided some promising lines of enquiry which would lead us through passages of doubtful sig ...
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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.