Brehon Law-Tracts
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Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
The body of ancient Irish legal texts analyzed for evidence of kinship-based and emerging private-property institutions.
But it is probable that it was occasionally, and even often true of the smaller group, the Sept, sub-Tribe, or Joint Family, which appears to me to be the legal unit of the Brehon tracts.
The instructiveness of the Brehon tracts, at least to the student of legal history, seems to me to arise from their showing that institutions of modern stamp may be in existence with a number of rules by their side which savour of another and a greatly older order of ideas.
Feudalism ‘had grown up from two great sources, the Benefice and the practice of Commendation.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Ancient Irish legal texts discussed as evidence for the Church's role in extending separate ownership over tribal land.
In reading the Brehon tracts, you remain in doubt whether the writer means to lay down that tribal land under certain circumstances may be parted with generally and in favour of anybody, or whether it is only to be alienated in favour of the Church.