Lectures on the Early History of InstitutionsJ. Murray, 1875 - 412 pagina's |
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... tion of Property in Land . The collective ownership of the soil by groups of men either in fact united by blood - relationship , or believing or assuming that they are so united , is now entitled to take rank as an ascertained primitive ...
... tion of Property in Land . The collective ownership of the soil by groups of men either in fact united by blood - relationship , or believing or assuming that they are so united , is now entitled to take rank as an ascertained primitive ...
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... tion of the world , almost down to our own day . But the explanation is , that all Celtic societies were until recently seen by those competent to observe them through a peculiarly deceptive medium . A veil spread by the lawyers , a ...
... tion of the world , almost down to our own day . But the explanation is , that all Celtic societies were until recently seen by those competent to observe them through a peculiarly deceptive medium . A veil spread by the lawyers , a ...
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... tion , would disappear , except so far as the legal rules exactly coincided with the rules of the new Christian code , the law of the letter . ' Now , the want of a sanction is occasionally one of the greatest difficulties in ...
... tion , would disappear , except so far as the legal rules exactly coincided with the rules of the new Christian code , the law of the letter . ' Now , the want of a sanction is occasionally one of the greatest difficulties in ...
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... the Brahmin could declare that neglect or disobedience would be followed by endless degrada- tion and torment , the Brehon could only assert that the unlearned brother who pronounced a false judg- 1 42 IRISH AND EARLY ROMAN LAW . LECT .
... the Brahmin could declare that neglect or disobedience would be followed by endless degrada- tion and torment , the Brehon could only assert that the unlearned brother who pronounced a false judg- 1 42 IRISH AND EARLY ROMAN LAW . LECT .
Pagina 46
... tion of legal detail . Four pages of the Book of Aicill ( a very large proportion of an ancient body of law ) are concerned with injuries received from dogs in dog - fights , and they set forth in the most elaborate way the modification ...
... tion of legal detail . Four pages of the Book of Aicill ( a very large proportion of an ancient body of law ) are concerned with injuries received from dogs in dog - fights , and they set forth in the most elaborate way the modification ...
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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.