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Page 352
... as for the most lawfully begotten of children , a wergild ( or galanas ) is payable
, and there being no father's kindred a greater share than usual is paid to the
maternal relatives . I If the man on whom a child is fathered be living , he may free
...
... as for the most lawfully begotten of children , a wergild ( or galanas ) is payable
, and there being no father's kindred a greater share than usual is paid to the
maternal relatives . I If the man on whom a child is fathered be living , he may free
...
Page 353
From this we may infer that though not deemed hereditary , such it was tending to
become ; and this is probable , for from the same source we learn that the nobility
of the chief extended to the members of his family , their galanas , or as the ...
From this we may infer that though not deemed hereditary , such it was tending to
become ; and this is probable , for from the same source we learn that the nobility
of the chief extended to the members of his family , their galanas , or as the ...
Page 354
In Wales this price is called galanas , and like the wergild of the Teutonic nations
, it fixes a man's station in society . * Now the galanas of the chief is according to
the Venedotian Code , “ nine score and ' nine kine once augmented .
In Wales this price is called galanas , and like the wergild of the Teutonic nations
, it fixes a man's station in society . * Now the galanas of the chief is according to
the Venedotian Code , “ nine score and ' nine kine once augmented .
Page 355
Thus his galanas fixes a man's general status , just as in England many legal
consequences depend on the amount of a man's wer . Judging by this standard ,
the chief's position is honourable and exalted . He enjoys other privileges and ...
Thus his galanas fixes a man's general status , just as in England many legal
consequences depend on the amount of a man's wer . Judging by this standard ,
the chief's position is honourable and exalted . He enjoys other privileges and ...
Page 357
It was a legal justification for a blood feud , which feud might be composed by the
payment of the slain man's worth or galanas , a payment of just the same nature
as the wergild of our own old laws . Criminal or penal law , the law which does ...
It was a legal justification for a blood feud , which feud might be composed by the
payment of the slain man's worth or galanas , a payment of just the same nature
as the wergild of our own old laws . Criminal or penal law , the law which does ...
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| Title | The Law Magazine and Review: A Quarterly Review of Jurisprudence, Volume 6 |
| Contributors | Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead, Charles Henry Edward Carmichael, William Pinder Eversley, Sir Sherston Baker |
| Publisher | Saunders and Benning, 1881 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Jun 2012 |
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