On Early Law and CustomJ. Murray, 1890 - 402 pàgines |
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Pàgina 4
... things ; and it was de- scribed as the acknowledged basis of all Hindu law and Hindu institutions , the fountain of all civil obligation to more than a hundred millions of men . The book was actually extant , and the translation of it ...
... things ; and it was de- scribed as the acknowledged basis of all Hindu law and Hindu institutions , the fountain of all civil obligation to more than a hundred millions of men . The book was actually extant , and the translation of it ...
Pàgina 8
... 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 some singularly close ...
... 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 some singularly close ...
Pàgina 18
... things than about crime , a great deal more about penances than about punishments . They are intended to guide the faithful Hindu of the three higher castes from birth to death , and give him full directions for living first as a 18 ...
... things than about crime , a great deal more about penances than about punishments . They are intended to guide the faithful Hindu of the three higher castes from birth to death , and give him full directions for living first as a 18 ...
Pàgina 21
... things Delighted with meditating on the Supreme Spirit , sitting fixed in such meditation , without needing anything earthly , without any companion but his own soul , let him live in this world , seeking the bliss of the next . . . A ...
... things Delighted with meditating on the Supreme Spirit , sitting fixed in such meditation , without needing anything earthly , without any companion but his own soul , let him live in this world , seeking the bliss of the next . . . A ...
Pàgina 34
... been struck by the immense superiority of the man to the brute . They appear to have been impressed by the difference between living things and everything else , but to have considered the 34 CHAP . II . RELIGION AND LAW .
... been struck by the immense superiority of the man to the brute . They appear to have been impressed by the difference between living things and everything else , but to have considered the 34 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 |
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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.