On Early Law and CustomJ. Murray, 1890 - 402 pàgines |
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Pàgina 72
... male ancestors . Although , ' says Sir John Lubbock , ' descent amongst the lowest savages is traced in the female line , I do not know of any instance in which female ancestors were worshipped . ' Female ancestors in the direct line ...
... male ancestors . Although , ' says Sir John Lubbock , ' descent amongst the lowest savages is traced in the female line , I do not know of any instance in which female ancestors were worshipped . ' Female ancestors in the direct line ...
Pàgina 73
... male and female ; ' and again , the sacrificer in another hymn is made to say , ' O great and august father , comfort me , your filial son . . . . I offer this sacrifice to my meritorious father , and to my accom- plished mother . ' It ...
... male and female ; ' and again , the sacrificer in another hymn is made to say , ' O great and august father , comfort me , your filial son . . . . I offer this sacrifice to my meritorious father , and to my accom- plished mother . ' It ...
Pàgina 76
... male descents only . There is a very strong resemblance between these usages and the most ancient Roman law , and their differences , where they differ , throw very valuable light on the more famous of the two systems 76 CHAP . 111 ...
... male descents only . There is a very strong resemblance between these usages and the most ancient Roman law , and their differences , where they differ , throw very valuable light on the more famous of the two systems 76 CHAP . 111 ...
Pàgina 85
... male child or other male descendant . Under the conditions of thought we have been sup- posing , it will have been seen that the verge of life and death was very easily overstepped . The dead man was he who had been the living dreamer ...
... male child or other male descendant . Under the conditions of thought we have been sup- posing , it will have been seen that the verge of life and death was very easily overstepped . The dead man was he who had been the living dreamer ...
Pàgina 86
... male children to their dead forefathers . We cannot , as it appears to me , frame in our minds any reasonable explanation of Ancestor - worship and its legal consequences , unless we assume that , when it first arose among men , the ...
... male children to their dead forefathers . We cannot , as it appears to me , frame in our minds any reasonable explanation of Ancestor - worship and its legal consequences , unless we assume that , when it first arose among men , the ...
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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.