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... persons who seem to me of highest authority is , first , that the codified law - Manu and his glossators - embraced originally a much smaller body of usage than had been imagined ; and next , that the customary rules , reduced to ...
... persons who seem to me of highest authority is , first , that the codified law - Manu and his glossators - embraced originally a much smaller body of usage than had been imagined ; and next , that the customary rules , reduced to ...
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... Persons of the Hindu Trinity to the Goddess of the Earth . When this sacred legal literature of the Hindus is surveyed in its entirety , it is impossible not to recog- nise the plausibility of the modern theories of its origin . No one ...
... Persons of the Hindu Trinity to the Goddess of the Earth . When this sacred legal literature of the Hindus is surveyed in its entirety , it is impossible not to recog- nise the plausibility of the modern theories of its origin . No one ...
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... persons as entirely helpless and therefore dependent on the group at large ; the children , the unmarried daughters and widows , and the old men . The seniors ' not in- frequently mentioned in the Irish Brehon law , and stated to be persons ...
... persons as entirely helpless and therefore dependent on the group at large ; the children , the unmarried daughters and widows , and the old men . The seniors ' not in- frequently mentioned in the Irish Brehon law , and stated to be persons ...
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... persons , ' says Apastamba ( II . v . 10. 13 ) , transgress the order of their spiritual director , he shall take them before the King . The King shall consult his domestic priest , who should be learned in the law and in the art of ...
... persons , ' says Apastamba ( II . v . 10. 13 ) , transgress the order of their spiritual director , he shall take them before the King . The King shall consult his domestic priest , who should be learned in the law and in the art of ...
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... the household ; and that from this worship sprang the Father's Power as its high - priest , and also the denial of kinship to persons no longer able to participate in it , as the married daughter CHAP . III . 75 ANCESTOR - WORSHIP .
... the household ; and that from this worship sprang the Father's Power as its high - priest , and also the denial of kinship to persons no longer able to participate in it , as the married daughter CHAP . III . 75 ANCESTOR - WORSHIP .
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