The Influence of the Roman Law on the Law of England: Being the Yorke Prize Essay of the University of Cambridge for the Year 1884 |
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... followed by 77 actual English laws of considerable importance . Alfred has himself described his method of framing them as follows : " I then , Alfred , King , gathered these together and commanded many of those to be written which our ...
... followed by 77 actual English laws of considerable importance . Alfred has himself described his method of framing them as follows : " I then , Alfred , King , gathered these together and commanded many of those to be written which our ...
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... followed the Roman with- drawal . While , secondly , if the Welsh institutions are unlike the Saxon in important points , either the ancient British system has been modified in Wales in an entirely different way to that in which it has ...
... followed the Roman with- drawal . While , secondly , if the Welsh institutions are unlike the Saxon in important points , either the ancient British system has been modified in Wales in an entirely different way to that in which it has ...
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... followed the custom of inheritance , book - land followed the book , folc - land reverted to the Crown or nation . The custom of inheritance in family land was to all the sons equally , and failing them to all the daughters . Women were ...
... followed the custom of inheritance , book - land followed the book , folc - land reverted to the Crown or nation . The custom of inheritance in family land was to all the sons equally , and failing them to all the daughters . Women were ...
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... followed by the gifta , the delivery or nuptials . The weotuma gradually became a mere earnest , or wed , to make the contract binding , while the substantial part of the price was paid to the woman herself after consummation , as the ...
... followed by the gifta , the delivery or nuptials . The weotuma gradually became a mere earnest , or wed , to make the contract binding , while the substantial part of the price was paid to the woman herself after consummation , as the ...
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... followed different lines of development . Some- thing resembling Feudalism would have developed in England had the Norman keels never furrowed the sand at Pevensey , but it would have developed from different germs . Frank Feudalism ...
... followed different lines of development . Some- thing resembling Feudalism would have developed in England had the Norman keels never furrowed the sand at Pevensey , but it would have developed from different germs . Frank Feudalism ...
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