On Early Law and CustomJ. Murray, 1890 - 402 pàgines |
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Resultats 1 - 5 de 48.
Pàgina 93
... French princess , who was his mother , could not succeed , but he contended that he himself , as her son , was entitled to succeed his maternal grandfather . This argument did not pre- vail either in the forum of arms or in the opinion ...
... French princess , who was his mother , could not succeed , but he contended that he himself , as her son , was entitled to succeed his maternal grandfather . This argument did not pre- vail either in the forum of arms or in the opinion ...
Pàgina 96
... French Civil Code ( liv . i . 8 ; tit . 8 , c . 1 ) , and other Continental Codes founded on the French , Adoption survives as an institution : a childless man , though under somewhat severely restrictive condi- tions , may take to ...
... French Civil Code ( liv . i . 8 ; tit . 8 , c . 1 ) , and other Continental Codes founded on the French , Adoption survives as an institution : a childless man , though under somewhat severely restrictive condi- tions , may take to ...
Pàgina 111
... French Code and of the Codes modelled on it , the practice of testamentary disposition is said to be on the decline . The rights over the father's property secured to children are indefeasible , and the chief modern object of a Will ...
... French Code and of the Codes modelled on it , the practice of testamentary disposition is said to be on the decline . The rights over the father's property secured to children are indefeasible , and the chief modern object of a Will ...
Pàgina 138
... French , and founded the feudal monarchy of the country which , by successive additions , has since become so famous ... French kings , with the possible excep- tion of Henry IV . of France and Navarre , had died in 1314 , leaving three ...
... French , and founded the feudal monarchy of the country which , by successive additions , has since become so famous ... French kings , with the possible excep- tion of Henry IV . of France and Navarre , had died in 1314 , leaving three ...
Pàgina 139
... French Crown . It is usual both with French and with English historians to describe this claim as wholly untenable , but , though I will not here discuss what is really a point of technical law , I will pause to say that this view of ...
... French Crown . It is usual both with French and with English historians to describe this claim as wholly untenable , but , though I will not here discuss what is really a point of technical law , I will pause to say that this view of ...
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Early Law and Custom: Chiefly Selected from Lectures Delivered at Oxford Henry Sumner Maine Visualització de fragments - 1985 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 101 - If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.
Pàgina 101 - Now there were with us seven brethren : and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother: 26 Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh.
Pàgina 219 - Romans may be taken as the type of them, and they are so described to us that we can scarcely help conceiving them as a system of concentric circles which have gradually expanded from the same point. The elementary group is the Family, connected by common subjection to the highest male ascendant. The aggregation of Families forms the Gens or House.
Pàgina 389 - is the ascendancy of the law of actions in the infancy of courts of justice, that substantive law has at first the look of being gradually secreted in the interstices of procedure.
Pàgina 101 - Master, Moses said, if a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. Now there were with us seven brethren : and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and having no issue, left his wife unto his brother : Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh. And last of all the woman died also. Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven ? for they all had her.
Pàgina 70 - When he leaves his corpse like a log or a heap of clay upon the ground, his kindred retire with averted faces ; but his virtue accompanies his soul. Continually, therefore, by degrees let him collect virtue, for the sake of securing an inseparable companion ; since, with virtue for his guide, he will traverse a gloom, how hard to be traversed!
Pàgina 196 - Patriarchal theory is etated as 'the theory of the origin of society in separate families, held together by the authority and protection of the eldest valid ascendant.
Pàgina 228 - I cannot see why the men who discovered the use of fire and selected the wild forms of certain animals for domestication and of vegetables for cultivation should not find out that children of unsound constitutions were born of nearly related parents.
Pàgina 360 - They sometimes write as if they thought that, although obscured by false theory, false logic, and false statement, there is somewhere behind all the delusions which they expose a framework of permanent legal conceptions which is discoverable by a trained eye, looking through a dry light, and to which a rational Code may always be fitted.