Brehon laws
quoted 2 times by 2 works · not held
also in the atlas: Brehon Laws the object
Most often quoted — the words themselves, in quotation. The locus given for each is the passage in the quoting book; the harvest records no place inside what is quoted, and nothing here pretends to.
1 quoted · 1 carried
1 neutralquoted by
2 works-
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom Henry Sumner Maine 1 citation
Reports the Brehon laws as documentary authority for the comparative Irish argument.
I will not now repeat the account which I gave on former occasions of the remarkable social mechanism disclosed by the Brehon laws;
ch. 11 ¶ -
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions Henry Sumner Maine 1 neutral 1 citation
The passage presents a direct quotation attributed to the Brehon law itself.
‘Every chief,’ says the Brehon law, ‘rules over his land, whether it be small or whether it be large.
ch. 3 ¶
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