History of the Land Tenures and Land Classes of Ireland: With an Account of the Various Secret Agrarian Confederacies

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Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1871 - Всего страниц: 333
 

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Стр. 265 - Neque quisquam agri modum certum aut fines habet proprios; sed magistratus ac principes in annos singulos gentibus cognationibusque hominum, qui una coierunt, quantum et quo loco visum est agri attribuunt atque anno post alio transire cogunt.
Стр. 292 - Acts were passed for their punishment which seemed calculated for the meridian of Barbary; this arose to such a height that by one they were to be hanged under...
Стр. 258 - The Greeks, the Romans, the Britons, the Saxons, and even originally the feudists, divided the lands equally, some among all the children at large, some among the males only.
Стр. 289 - Ireland; a long series of oppressions, aided by many very ill-judged laws, have brought landlords into a habit of exerting a very lofty superiority, and their vassals into that of an almost unlimited submission: speaking a language that is despised, professing a religion that is abhorred ()and being disarmed, the poor find themselves in many cases slaves even in the bosom of written liberty.
Стр. 47 - The first thing then the student has to do is to get rid of the idea of absolute ownership. Such an idea is quite unknown to the English law. No man is in law the absolute owner of lands. He can only hold an estate in them.
Стр. 51 - For though in general they are still said to hold their estates at the will of the lord, yet it is such a will as is agreeable to the custom of the manor...
Стр. 292 - ... wretches they doomed to the gallows. Let them change their own conduct entirely, and the poor will not long riot. " Treat them like men who ought to be as free as yourselves ; put an end to that system of religious persecution which for seventy years has divided the kingdom against itself ; in these two circumstances lies the cure of insurrection ; reform them completely, and you will have an affectionate poor instead of oppressed and discontented vassals.
Стр. 260 - That son alone, by whose birth he discharges his debt, and through whom he attains immortality, was begotten from a sense of duty : all the rest are considered by the wise as begotten from love of pleasure.
Стр. 289 - To discover what the liberty of a people is, we must live among them, and not look for it in the statutes of the realm : the language of written law may be that of liberty, but the situation of the poor may speak no language but that of slavery. There is too much of this contradiction in Ireland...
Стр. 98 - ... inviolable, and to deliver up the succession peaceably to his Tanist, and then hath a wand delivered unto him by some whose...

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