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... Lectures on the Early History of Institutions - Pagina 300door Henry Sumner Maine - 1875 - 412 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1875 - 852 pagina’s
...visible means of punishing the debtors or enforcing the sanction, the supernatural element intervened : " He who does not give a pledge to fasting is an evader...disregards all things shall not be paid by God or man." This scarcely comes up to the idea of a sanction which involves an indemnification in damages or performance,... | |
 | 1875 - 508 pagina’s
...religious sanction was more effective than the strictly legal remedy. In Irish law it is written, " He who does not give a pledge to fasting is an evader...disregards all things shall not be paid by God or man." By some strange process of survival, this remedy, which is strictly speaking an extralegal form of... | |
 | 1875 - 514 pagina’s
...religious sanction was more effective than the strictly legal remedy. In Irish law it is written, " He who does not give a pledge to fasting is an evader...disregards all things shall not be paid by God or man." By some strange process of survival, this remedy, which is strictly speaking an extralegal form of... | |
 | 1875 - 844 pagina’s
...visible means of punishing the debtors or enforcing the sanction, the supernatural element intervened: "He who does not give a pledge to fasting is an evader of all ; he who disregards all tilings shall not be paid by God or man." This scarcely comes up to the idea of a sanction which involves... | |
 | William Babcock Weeden - 1882 - 334 pagina’s
...it. The Hindu sits at his debtor's door and starves himself until he is paid. The Brehon law says, " He who does not give a pledge to fasting is an evader...disregards all things shall not be paid by God or man." The distinctive power of Christianity is foreshadowed in these heathen institutions. The great force... | |
 | Henry Sumner Maine - 1890 - 438 pagina’s
...creditor's death by starvation ; and there is perhaps a pale reflection of this doctrine in the language of the Senchus Mor : ' He who does not give a pledge...disregards all things shall not be paid by God or man.' But an Irish Brehon could scarcely make any distinct assertion on the subject, since fasting had now... | |
 | Sir James Henry Ramsay (bart.) - 1898 - 608 pagina’s
...anterior to the separation of the Aryan races. If fasting failed nothing remained but social ostracism. " He who does not give a pledge to fasting is an evader...disregards all things shall not be paid by God or man." l! As 'distress' and 'fasting' were the only remedies for past injuries, so the exaction of hostages... | |
 | Charles Letourneau - 1892 - 434 pagina’s
...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."4 In southern Italy the pecuniary solidarity of the members of a family is still admitted. It... | |
 | Charles Letourneau - 1892 - 440 pagina’s
...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."4 In southern Italy the pecuniary solidarity of the members of a family is still admitted. It... | |
 | Nottidge Charles Macnamara - 1896 - 406 pagina’s
...received satisfaction. The Brehon law states that " he who does not give pledges to a fasting person is an evader of all ; he who disregards all things shall not be paid by God or man." This system of fasting by a plaintiff at the door of the defendant is still practised throughout India... | |
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