Ancient Law: Its Connection with the Early History of Society and Its Relation to Modern Ideas

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J. Murray, 1890 - 415 páginas
 

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Página 256 - For, by the law of nature and reason, he, who first began to use it, acquired therein a kind of transient property, that lasted so long as he was using it, and no longer : or, to speak with greater precision, the right of possession continued for the same time only that the act of possession lasted.
Página 24 - Rob Roy on the Jordan, Nile, Red Sea, Gennesareth, &c. A Canoe Cruise in Palestine and Egypt and the Waters of Damascus.
Página 172 - The movement of the progressive societies has been uniform in one respect. Through all its course it has been distinguished by the gradual dissolution of Family dependency and the growth of individual obligation in its place.
Página 132 - The elementary group is the family, connected by common subjection to the highest male ascendant ; the aggregation of families forms the gens or house ; the aggregation of houses makes the tribe ; the aggregation of tribes constitutes the commonwealth.
Página 6 - BIGG-WITHER (TP). Pioneering in South Brazil; Three Years of Forest and Prairie Life in the Province of Parana.
Página 86 - That an English writer of the time of Henry III. should have been able to put off on his countrymen as a compendium of pure English law a treatise of which the entire form and a third of the contents were directly borrowed from the Corpus...
Página 60 - After Nature had become a household word in the mouths of the Romans, the belief gradually prevailed among the Roman lawyers that the old Jus Gentium was in fact the lost code of Nature, and that the Praetor in framing an Ediotal jurisprudence on the principles of the Jus Gentium was gradually restoring a type from which law had only departed to deteriorate.
Página 9 - CAMPBELL'S (LORD) Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England. From the Earliest Times to the Death of Lord Eldon in 183S.
Página 6 - Notices of the Historic Persons buried in the Chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula, in the Tower of London, with an account of the discovery of the supposed remains of Queen Anne Boleyn.

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