On Early Law and CustomJ. Murray, 1890 - 402 pàgines |
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Pàgina 21
... comparatively common practice in India for the aged Hindu to retire into ' religion , ' and the law , as administered by the British tribunals , makes provision in many places for the case of a Hindu who has embraced a religious life ...
... comparatively common practice in India for the aged Hindu to retire into ' religion , ' and the law , as administered by the British tribunals , makes provision in many places for the case of a Hindu who has embraced a religious life ...
Pàgina 36
... comparatively intelligible . Thus , they are chiefly called law - books because they contain rules of conduct stated with the utmost precision . But what happens to a man if he disobeys the rule ? question to the modern jurist . ment ...
... comparatively intelligible . Thus , they are chiefly called law - books because they contain rules of conduct stated with the utmost precision . But what happens to a man if he disobeys the rule ? question to the modern jurist . ment ...
Pàgina 37
... comparatively venial offence of drinking forbidden liquor a Brahman is to have boiling spirit poured down his throat . Other penances are extraordinary from the length and intricacy of the self - inflictions which they suppose . The old ...
... comparatively venial offence of drinking forbidden liquor a Brahman is to have boiling spirit poured down his throat . Other penances are extraordinary from the length and intricacy of the self - inflictions which they suppose . The old ...
Pàgina 38
... comparatively narrow place to the royal authority , but the space allotted to the King and his functions is always increasing , until in the latest trea- tises ( such as Manu ) the whole duty of a King is one of the subjects treated of ...
... comparatively narrow place to the royal authority , but the space allotted to the King and his functions is always increasing , until in the latest trea- tises ( such as Manu ) the whole duty of a King is one of the subjects treated of ...
Pàgina 64
... comparatively scanty Roman evidence con- cerning the sacra privata would seem to show that they dwindled in importance and popular respect . In Cicero's time the charges for them were still a heavy burden on Inheritances , but they seem ...
... comparatively scanty Roman evidence con- cerning the sacra privata would seem to show that they dwindled in importance and popular respect . In Cicero's time the charges for them were still a heavy burden on Inheritances , but they seem ...
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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.