Brehon Laws
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Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
The body of ancient Irish law tracts used as the principal evidentiary source for the lecture's argument.
The Brehon law permits us to take the same view of the corresponding class in Celtic societies.
The circumstance of greatest novelty in the position of the Chief which the Brehon law appears to me to bring out is this:
Let me first say that the whole land-system shadowed forth in the Brehon laws does seem to me to have for its basis the primary ownership of the tribe-land by the Tribe.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Ancient Irish legal texts cited as evidence for a cattle-and-kinship based feudal-like system.
I will not now repeat the account which I gave on former occasions of the remarkable social mechanism disclosed by the Brehon laws;