Evolution of Law: Sources of ancient and primitive lawLittle, Brown,, 1915 - Law |
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... Pledge - Idea , " I satisfied myself there were great possibilities in the tracing of the evolution of universal legal ideas . I can see now , in the light of what others have since : done , how much more there is in the ADDENDUM TO ...
... Pledge - Idea , " I satisfied myself there were great possibilities in the tracing of the evolution of universal legal ideas . I can see now , in the light of what others have since : done , how much more there is in the ADDENDUM TO ...
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... pledge that his wrong should be avenged on Agamemnon and the Achaians . * But he sat by his swift - faring ships , still wroth , even the heaven- sprung son of Peleus , Achilles , fleet of foot ; he betook him neither to the assembly ...
... pledge that his wrong should be avenged on Agamemnon and the Achaians . * But he sat by his swift - faring ships , still wroth , even the heaven- sprung son of Peleus , Achilles , fleet of foot ; he betook him neither to the assembly ...
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... pledge that not till I had laid waste well - walled Ilios should I depart , but now hath planned a cruel wile , and biddeth me return in dishonour to Argos with the loss of many of my folk . Such meseemeth is the good pleasure of most ...
... pledge that not till I had laid waste well - walled Ilios should I depart , but now hath planned a cruel wile , and biddeth me return in dishonour to Argos with the loss of many of my folk . Such meseemeth is the good pleasure of most ...
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... pledge me an oath to bring me home in safety . ' " So spake she , and they all swore thereto as she bade them . Now when they had sworn and done that oath , again the woman spake among them and answered , saying : ' Hold your peace now ...
... pledge me an oath to bring me home in safety . ' " So spake she , and they all swore thereto as she bade them . Now when they had sworn and done that oath , again the woman spake among them and answered , saying : ' Hold your peace now ...
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... embodied by chance . They fight in clans , united by consanguinity , a family of warriors . Their tenderest pledges are near them in the field . In the heat of the engagement , the soldier hears 98 [ PART I. GENERAL LITERATURE.
... embodied by chance . They fight in clans , united by consanguinity , a family of warriors . Their tenderest pledges are near them in the field . In the heat of the engagement , the soldier hears 98 [ PART I. GENERAL LITERATURE.
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Achaians Agamemnon Althing Asgrim Athens Barachiel belong booth Brahmana brother brought called cattle cause ceremonies Cersobleptes Charidemus chief Churinga clan Clodius contract council court crime custom daughter death debt declared decree defendant denars dowry Eyjolf father Flosi galanas gave gens give given Gizur gods grain Gunnar hand hath Hauskuld Hebrew Hrut husband judge Kafir Kari kill kine king land lord Magistrates manehs marriage matter Milo Mord mother murder Njal Njal's Nomarch oath Odysseus owner party person pledge Point Barrow possession priest Publius Clodius punishment Pylos Rameses II Scribe Shamash shekels shillings ships silver Skarphedinn slain slave slaying sons spake suit summoned surety tablet Telemachus thee theft things Thord's Thorgeir Thorhall thou shalt tion took witness totem translation trial tribe Urabunna Valgard's wife wives woman women words Zeus
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Page 393 - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Page 392 - For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour.
Page 414 - When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
Page 439 - If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
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Page 403 - If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field ; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.
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