Kemble
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
a Kemble
in the texts
Institutes of Roman Law
Modern historian cited as source for the Saxon legal maxim.
In Saxon law the alternative offered to the aggressor was expressed by the maxim Biege spere of side other bere:
The Genius of the Common Law
Historian (John Mitchell Kemble) associated with enthusiastic championing of the Anglo-Saxon/Teutonic ideal.
It is not our business either to support or to contravene the Anglo-Saxon zeal of a Kemble, a Kingsley or a Freeman, when we can find everything we need for our particular purpose without going outside the text of Tacitus and the judicial caution of Gibbon’s comment thereon.