On Early Law and CustomJ. Murray, 1890 - 402 pàgines |
Des de l'interior del llibre
Resultats 1 - 5 de 43.
Pàgina 9
... less treating of law . This opinion is the result of a test first applied by Professor Max Müller , and now univer- sally accepted by Sanscritists as conclusive . The law - book of Manu is in verse , and Verse is one of the expedients ...
... less treating of law . This opinion is the result of a test first applied by Professor Max Müller , and now univer- sally accepted by Sanscritists as conclusive . The law - book of Manu is in verse , and Verse is one of the expedients ...
Pàgina 12
... less the aggregate of treatises , is the production of an individual man or of an individual mind . The literature is the gradual growth of schools of learned Brahmans , which are still found in India . They are companies or cor ...
... less the aggregate of treatises , is the production of an individual man or of an individual mind . The literature is the gradual growth of schools of learned Brahmans , which are still found in India . They are companies or cor ...
Pàgina 38
... less assumed to exist in the oldest of these treatises , but , all taken together , they suggest that the alliance between the King and the Brahmans was very gradually formed . The most ancient of the books give comparatively narrow ...
... less assumed to exist in the oldest of these treatises , but , all taken together , they suggest that the alliance between the King and the Brahmans was very gradually formed . The most ancient of the books give comparatively narrow ...
Pàgina 45
... less light on the beginning of law than on the beginning of lawyers . But it is of course to be understood that the men who conceived and framed it were much more than lawyers . All the world knows that they were also in some sense ...
... less light on the beginning of law than on the beginning of lawyers . But it is of course to be understood that the men who conceived and framed it were much more than lawyers . All the world knows that they were also in some sense ...
Pàgina 46
... over wide areas and again overthrown much less by propagandism than by the civil power . On the whole , the impression left on the mind by the study of these books is , that a more awful 46 CHAP . II . RELIGION AND LAW .
... over wide areas and again overthrown much less by propagandism than by the civil power . On the whole , the impression left on the mind by the study of these books is , that a more awful 46 CHAP . II . RELIGION AND LAW .
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.