Dissertations on Early Law and Custom: Chiefly Selected from Lectures Delivered at Oxford |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 57
Page 15
... Chiefs instruction in riding , shooting with the bow , swimming , and chess - playing , and instruction to their daughters ... chief literary profession . He took payment , but it was the law which settled it for him . It was part of his ...
... Chiefs instruction in riding , shooting with the bow , swimming , and chess - playing , and instruction to their daughters ... chief literary profession . He took payment , but it was the law which settled it for him . It was part of his ...
Page 23
... chief who , questioned as to the fortunes of a fellow - tribesman long ago well known to the enquirer , answered , ' He gave us so much good advice that we put him mercifully to death . ' The reply , if it CHAP . I. THE SACRED LAWS OF ...
... chief who , questioned as to the fortunes of a fellow - tribesman long ago well known to the enquirer , answered , ' He gave us so much good advice that we put him mercifully to death . ' The reply , if it CHAP . I. THE SACRED LAWS OF ...
Page 45
... chief drawbacks on the historical usefulness of the sacred Hindu laws . In the course of their growth they have probably absorbed much customary law from without ; but even in the earliest of them it probably has been changed in ...
... chief drawbacks on the historical usefulness of the sacred Hindu laws . In the course of their growth they have probably absorbed much customary law from without ; but even in the earliest of them it probably has been changed in ...
Page 55
... chief still watches over his own tribe , still holds his autho- rity , by helping friends and harming enemies , still rewards the right and sharply punishes the wrong . ' Ancestor - worship , the worship of father , grand- father , and ...
... chief still watches over his own tribe , still holds his autho- rity , by helping friends and harming enemies , still rewards the right and sharply punishes the wrong . ' Ancestor - worship , the worship of father , grand- father , and ...
Page 69
... chief is seen to have finally departed for the spirit - world , is to provide him with food and drink , perhaps with arms , ornaments , and attendants , for his new home , which is to be so like his old one . In these impulses the ...
... chief is seen to have finally departed for the spirit - world , is to provide him with food and drink , perhaps with arms , ornaments , and attendants , for his new home , which is to be so like his old one . In these impulses the ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
agnatic Alfred Lyall ancestor-worship ancestors Ancient Law antiquity Apastamba Aryan Aryan race authority barbarous Brahmans called Canon century chief Church civilisation clans Code copyhold Courts of Justice Crown 8vo daughter dead Dean death descended Dictionary doubt earliest Edited Empire England English existence exogamous fact father Fcap feudal France French German Greek Hindu law History house communities ideas Illus Illustrations India inheritance institutions Irish King kinship kinsmen land law-books lawyers Lex Salica Lord Mahommedan male mankind Manor manorial Manu Maps and Plans marry McLennan Medium 8vo ment modern natural observed oldest origin popular Portrait Post 8vo primitive probably race Rajput religious Roman law royal rules sacerdotal sacred Salic law savage seems social society South Slavonian Student's succession supposed Tanistry tenure Teutonic tion tribe Twelve Tables usage Village Communities villeins villenage Vishnu vols women Woodcuts worship writers
Popular passages
Page 99 - 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.
Page 2 - With a, full View of the English-Dutch Struggle against Spain, and of the Origin and Destruction of the Spanish Armada. By JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, LL.D., DCL Portraits.
Page 1 - History of Rome. From the Earliest Times to the Establishment of the Empire. With the History of Literature and Art.
Page 25 - A History of England, from the First Invasion by the Romans to 1878. With Conversations at the end of each Chapter. By Mrs. MARKHAM.
Page 99 - 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.
Page 2 - HISTORY OF FRANCE; from the Earliest Times to the Establishment of the Second Empire, 1852.
Page 217 - 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.
Page 25 - STUDENT'S OLD TESTAMENT HISTORY; from the Creation to the Return of the Jews from Captivity. Maps and Woodcuts. Post 8vo. Is. 6d. NEW TESTAMENT HISTORY. With an Introduction connecting the History of the Old and New Testaments.
Page 25 - STUDENT'S HISTORY OF ROME. From the EARLIEST TIMES to the ESTABLISHMENT OF THE EMPIRE, With Chapters on the History of Literature and Art. By Dean LIDDELL.
Page 218 - The aggregation of tribes constitutes the commonwealth. Are we at liberty to follow these indications, and to lay down that the commonwealth is a collection of persons united by common descent from the progenitor of...