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... connexions , procedure , and the multifarious ramifications of a well - developed system of jurisprudence . § 4. In doing so , many references of a comparative nature are made to other more or less contemporary provisions of law ; to ...
... connexions , procedure , and the multifarious ramifications of a well - developed system of jurisprudence . § 4. In doing so , many references of a comparative nature are made to other more or less contemporary provisions of law ; to ...
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... connexions . § 2. Another distinction lies in the fact that , whereas all systems recognize the King or chief , the freeman , the unfree , the slave , the official , and the stranger , the Welsh Laws did not , as did some of the other ...
... connexions . § 2. Another distinction lies in the fact that , whereas all systems recognize the King or chief , the freeman , the unfree , the slave , the official , and the stranger , the Welsh Laws did not , as did some of the other ...
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... connexion of some of the sources thereof with the royal and official ' cylchs ' . The three Codes tell us that the King's retinue , while on circuit , was to consist of thirty - six horsemen , twenty - four of whom were the royal ...
... connexion of some of the sources thereof with the royal and official ' cylchs ' . The three Codes tell us that the King's retinue , while on circuit , was to consist of thirty - six horsemen , twenty - four of whom were the royal ...
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... connexions , operated . 1 Small Primer , V. 15 ; Book of Aicill , III . 107 ; Corus Bescna , IV . 31 . ? Small Primer , V. 21 , 77 . VI THE BONHEDDIGION Explanations of their tribal and kindred organization CH . V THE FREEMAN IN IRISH ...
... connexions , operated . 1 Small Primer , V. 15 ; Book of Aicill , III . 107 ; Corus Bescna , IV . 31 . ? Small Primer , V. 21 , 77 . VI THE BONHEDDIGION Explanations of their tribal and kindred organization CH . V THE FREEMAN IN IRISH ...
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... connexion with the land and the revenues and dues from the land . § 2. Nevertheless the interpretation and explanation of that system has given rise to varied , and in some cases unsatisfactory , accounts . Until recently at any rate ...
... connexion with the land and the revenues and dues from the land . § 2. Nevertheless the interpretation and explanation of that system has given rise to varied , and in some cases unsatisfactory , accounts . Until recently at any rate ...
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Aberffraw Abergele agnatic aillt amobyr ancestor Anglesea Anglo-Saxon Laws appears blood-fine Bromfield and Yale Caernarfon cenedl Church claim clan collateral common connexion cousins custom cylch cymwd Cynan dadanhudd descendants Dimetian Code ebediw Ednyfed Fychan Elidyr entitled escheat Extent fact father foreigner four free and unfree freemen gafaels Gronw gwely Gwentian Code heir held land holders holding honour-price husband Hywel Dda Idenerth Irish Laws Ithel kindred King King's levied Lex Salica liability Llwydcoed Llysfaen Llywarch lord Madoc maerdref male marriage married mentioned Merioneth mill Nantglyn nativi ninth degree Norman occupied Owain Gwynedd paid partition pastus payable pencenedl person possession Prees priodawr priodolder progenies Record of Caernarfon references relationship renders rule Sesswick share sons South Wales status Survey of Denbigh term territory tref Triads tribal tribe Trofarth tunc unfree Venedotian Code villes Welsh Law wife woman word Wyrion
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Page 257 - Nulli liceat traditionem hereditatis suae facere praeter ad ecclesiam vel regi ut heredem suum exheredem faciat nisi forte famis necessitate coactus ut ab illo qui hoc acceperit sustentetur, mancipia liceat illidare ac vendere.
Page 270 - And by the Irish custom of gavelkind the inferior tenantries were partible amongst all the males of the sept, both bastards and legitimate ; and after partition made, if any one of the sept had died, his portion was not divided among his sons, but the chief of the sept made a new partition of all the lands belonging to that sept, and gave every one his part according to his antiquity.
Page 407 - If a man carry off a widow not in his own tutelage, let the " mund " be two-fold. 77. If a man buy a maiden with cattle, let the bargain stand, if it be without guile ; but if there be guile, let him bring her home again, and let his property be restored to him.
Page 18 - It is whilom, in the laws of the English, that people and law went by ranks, and then were the counsellors of the nation of worship worthy, each according to his condition, 'eorl' and 'ceorl,' 'thegen
Page 229 - ... and the eldest is to choose ; and each, in seniority, choose unto the youngest. If there be buildings, the youngest brother but one is to divide the tyddyns, for in that case he is the meter ; and the youngest to have his choice of the tyddyns : and after that he is to divide all the patrimony ; and by seniority they are to choose unto the youngest : and that division is to continue during the lives of the brothers.
Page 53 - The stream of feeling of union naturally diminishes with the remoteness of the degree of kinship. The further two persons are apart from each other in generation and household, the less powerful will be the bond of union between them: and we must therefore expect that in all systems of relationship it will be necessary to recognize certain concentric circles within which the rights and duties of the relations are more or less intense. On the evidence of actual facts, this is certainly true; we may...
Page 229 - And if second cousins should dislike the distribution which took place between their parents, they also may co-equate in the same manner as the first cousins; and after that division no one is either to distribute or to co-equate.
Page 393 - ... 8. At the nuptials, there shall be a mass-priest by Law; who shall with God's blessing bind their union to all prosperity. 9. Well is it also to be looked to, that it be known, that they, through kinship, be not too nearly allied; lest that be afterwards divided, which before was wrongly joined.
Page 377 - If a man buy any kind of cattle, and he then discover any unsoundness in it within thirty days, then let him throw the cattle on his hands, or let him swear that he knew not of any unsoundness in it when he sold it to him.
Page 429 - Si autem duas sorores absque fratre relictas post mortem patris fuerint, et ad ipsas hereditas pateruica contingat, et una nupserit sibi coaequalem liberum, alia autem nupserit aut colonum regis aut colonum ecclesiae: illa qui illum liberum nupsit sibi coaequalem, illa teneat terram patris eorum; res enim alias aequaliter dividant.