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Pagina 6
... usage into which writers exclusively conversant with 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 ...
... usage into which writers exclusively conversant with 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 ...
Pagina 12
... usages , the Hindoo law , which was similarly developed . The curious and perplexing problems which such a mode of growth suggests have to be grappled with by the student of either system . The ancient laws of Ireland have come down to ...
... usages , the Hindoo law , which was similarly developed . The curious and perplexing problems which such a mode of growth suggests have to be grappled with by the student of either system . The ancient laws of Ireland have come down to ...
Pagina 13
... the Irish people to Christianity . On the whole there is no antecedent improbability in the tradition that , soon after this conversion , the usages of the Irish began to be stated in writing , and 14 ANCIENT LAW IN VERSE . LECT . I.
... the Irish people to Christianity . On the whole there is no antecedent improbability in the tradition that , soon after this conversion , the usages of the Irish began to be stated in writing , and 14 ANCIENT LAW IN VERSE . LECT . I.
Pagina 21
... usage is perfectly discernible ; and thus it is that these Brehon law - tracts enable us to connect the races at the east- ern and western extremities of a later Aryan world , the Hindoos and the Irish . The Lectures which follow will ...
... usage is perfectly discernible ; and thus it is that these Brehon law - tracts enable us to connect the races at the east- ern and western extremities of a later Aryan world , the Hindoos and the Irish . The Lectures which follow will ...
Pagina 35
... usage , are believed to be dictated to him from on high . Among the Celts both of Gaul and of Ireland he has ceased to be priest , and also probably to be judge , although some measure of judicial authority may still belong to his ...
... usage , are believed to be dictated to him from on high . Among the Celts both of Gaul and of Ireland he has ceased to be priest , and also probably to be judge , although some measure of judicial authority may still belong to his ...
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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.