On Early Law and CustomJ. Murray, 1890 - 402 pàgines |
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Pàgina 18
... separates what a man ought to do from what he ought to know . A great part of the religious litera- ture , including the Creation of the Universe , the structure of Heaven , Hell , and the World or Worlds and the nature of the Gods ...
... separates what a man ought to do from what he ought to know . A great part of the religious litera- ture , including the Creation of the Universe , the structure of Heaven , Hell , and the World or Worlds and the nature of the Gods ...
Pàgina 24
... separates man from the brute , and the art of writing , by which the society capable of civilisation is distinguished ... separate lives . Yet the individual life is always the original source of experience , and at some time or other it ...
... separates man from the brute , and the art of writing , by which the society capable of civilisation is distinguished ... separate lives . Yet the individual life is always the original source of experience , and at some time or other it ...
Pàgina 52
... separate views of the life after death would appear to have contributed the theory of successive special Pur- gatories , and the theory of Transmigration , to the maturer Hindu system which has joined them to- gether . But besides the ...
... separate views of the life after death would appear to have contributed the theory of successive special Pur- gatories , and the theory of Transmigration , to the maturer Hindu system which has joined them to- gether . But besides the ...
Pàgina 83
... separately to perform religious rites , let them live apart ; since religious duties are multiplied in separate houses , their separation is therefore right and even laudable . ' The more separate households , the more occasion for ...
... separately to perform religious rites , let them live apart ; since religious duties are multiplied in separate houses , their separation is therefore right and even laudable . ' The more separate households , the more occasion for ...
Pàgina 84
... Separate , as dis- tinguished from Tribal , ownership . In reading the Brehon tracts , you remain in doubt whether the writer means to lay down that tribal land under cer- tain circumstances may be parted with generally and in favour of ...
... Separate , as dis- tinguished from Tribal , ownership . In reading the Brehon tracts , you remain in doubt whether the writer means to lay down that tribal land under cer- tain circumstances may be parted with generally and in favour 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.