On Early Law and CustomJ. Murray, 1890 - 402 pàgines |
Des de l'interior del llibre
Resultats 1 - 5 de 26.
Pàgina 8
... extremely slight ; and few things can be more instructive to the legal archæologist than the comparison of the Punjab rules with those worked out in Brahmanical schools far to the south - east . This Punjab Hindu law ex- hibits in fact ...
... extremely slight ; and few things can be more instructive to the legal archæologist than the comparison of the Punjab rules with those worked out in Brahmanical schools far to the south - east . This Punjab Hindu law ex- hibits in fact ...
Pàgina 11
... extremely old authority , but the extant text is in a very untrustworthy condition , as may be seen from Dr. Bühler's Introduction . Vishnu is translated by Jolly in vol . v . of the Sacred Books . 4 Ibid . 6 its present form either to ...
... extremely old authority , but the extant text is in a very untrustworthy condition , as may be seen from Dr. Bühler's Introduction . Vishnu is translated by Jolly in vol . v . of the Sacred Books . 4 Ibid . 6 its present form either to ...
Pàgina 28
... extremely instructive . Hindu theology , from very remote times , appears to have regarded the universe as having been destroyed and again created , and as destined to be destroyed and again created ; but during the enormous in- tervals ...
... extremely instructive . Hindu theology , from very remote times , appears to have regarded the universe as having been destroyed and again created , and as destined to be destroyed and again created ; but during the enormous in- tervals ...
Pàgina 41
... extremely mo- dern , but for the elevation of moral tone displayed in its language on the subject of true and false wit- ness , which should be set off against the unveracity attributed to the modern Hindu . No relatives , no 6 3 The ...
... extremely mo- dern , but for the elevation of moral tone displayed in its language on the subject of true and false wit- ness , which should be set off against the unveracity attributed to the modern Hindu . No relatives , no 6 3 The ...
Pàgina 60
... extremely abun- dant . Let me quote what is probably the oldest and the newest testimony on the subject . The most ancient Chinese records are the earlier portions of those famous collections in prose and verse , the Shu- King and the ...
... extremely abun- dant . Let me quote what is probably the oldest and the newest testimony on the subject . The most ancient Chinese records are the earlier portions of those famous collections in prose and verse , the Shu- King and the ...
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Early Law and Custom: Chiefly Selected from Lectures Delivered at Oxford Henry Sumner Maine Visualització de fragments - 1985 |
Frases i termes més freqüents
agnatic Alfred Lyall ancestor-worship ancestors Ancient Law Apastamba Aryan Aryan race authority barbarous belongs body Brahmans brother called century chief civilisation clans Code copyhold Courts of Justice daughter dead death descended doctrine doubt early England English existence exogamous fact father female feudal France French Gautama Hindu law house communities household Hugh Capet ideas India inheritance institutions Irish King kinship kinsmen land law-books lawyers Lex Salica lord Mahommedan male mankind Manor Manu marriage marry McLennan modern natural observed oldest origin paternal Patriarchal theory popular portion primitive princes probably race Rajput religious Roman law royal rules sacerdotal sacred sacrifice Salic law savage seems Shere Ali social society sons South Slavonian spirit succession supposed Tanistry tenants tenure Teutonic throne tion trace tribal tribe Twelve Tables usage Village Community villeins villenage Vishnu whole women worship writers
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.