Senchus Mor
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the 'Senchus Mor' · Brehon compendium · S.M. · principal Irish law-book · the Great Book of the Ancient Law · the Senchus Mor
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Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
The largest ancient Irish law-tract, the Great Book of the Ancient Law.
The Senchus Mor, the Great Book of the Ancient Law, was doubtless a most precious possession of the law-school or family to which it belonged;
The volumes officially translated and published contain the two largest of these tracts, the Senchus Mor, or Great Book of the Ancient Law, and the Book of Aicill.
” It is impossible, of course, to accept the statement that this wide-spread ancient institution, the pecuniary fine levied on tribes or families for the wrongs done by their members, had its origin in Christian influences;
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
The principal Irish law-book, largely concerned with the law of Distress.
The subject discussed in the great Code, the Senchus Mor, next after Distress is the law of ‘Hostage-securities,’ and it may certainly be asserted that this must have been an important branch of law amid a community perpetually belligerent like the ancient Irish.