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Lectures on the Early History of Institutions

1914

14.) The law of nature' is therefore the ancient pre-Christian ingredient in the system and the Senchus Mor ' says of it : The judgments of true nature while the Holy Ghost had spoken through the mouths of the Brehons and just poets of the men of Erin from the first occupation of Ireland down to the reception of the faith were all exhibited by Dubhthach to Patrick. [...] What did not clash with the Word of God in the written law and the New Testment and the consciences of believers was confirmed in the laws of the Brehons by Patrick and by the ecclesiastics and chieftains of Ireland; for the law of nature had been quite right except the faith and its obligations and the harmony of the Church and people. [...] Besides describing to us the religious doctrine of the Druids he informs us that they were extremely fond of disputing about the nature of the material world the movements of the stars and the dimensions of the earth and of the universe. [...] 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 of the governing rule required in the case of the owners—in the case of the specttors—in the case of the impartial interposer '—in the case of the half-interposer ' i.e. [...] The Editor of the Third Volume of the Ancient Laws of Ireland has given a very apposite example of a problem of the same kind 146) by extracting from the Carew Papers the story of a famous dispute as to the headship of the great Irish house of O'Neill.
history
Pages
419
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.142145
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-vii Henry Maine view
Lecture I. New Materials for the Early History of Institutions
1-23 unknown view
Lecture II. The Ancient Irish Law
24-63 unknown view
Lecture III. Kinship as the Basis of Society
64-97 unknown view
Lecture IV. The Tribe and the Land
98-118 unknown view
Lecture V. The Chief and His Order
119-146 unknown view
Lecture VI. The Chief and the Land
147-184 unknown view
Lecture VII. Ancient Divisions of the Family
185-224 unknown view
Lecture VIII. the Growth and Diffusion of Primitive Ideas
225-249 unknown view
Lecture IX. The Primitive Forms of Legal Remedies
250-278 unknown view
Lecture X. The Primitive Forms of Legal Pemediies
279-305 unknown view
Lecture XI. The Early History of the Settled Property of Married Women
306-341 unknown view
Lecture XII. Sovereignty
342-370 unknown view
Lecture XIII. Sovereignty and Empire
371-400 unknown view
Index
401-412 unknown view

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