Lectures on Slavonic Law: Being the Ilchester Lectures for the Year 1900

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H. Frowde, 1902 - Law - 152 pages

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Page 38 - When we arrive at the end of the thirteenth and the beginning of the fourteenth century...
Page 66 - ... fortunes and their own at the end! of the fifteenth, and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries in all the courts of western Europe.
Page 61 - Russia in the First Quarter of the Eighteenth Century and the Reforms of Peter the Great (in Russian; St.
Page 109 - SAIN SAIN was a disciple of Ramanand and consequently lived in the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century of the Christian era. He was a barber at the court of Raja Ram, king of Rewa, then called Bandhavgarh. The tendency of the age was towards devotion and religious composition, and Sain found leisure in the midst of his duties to study the hymns of Ramanand, shape his life on the principles inculcated...
Page 149 - Of the two forms of law, customary and statute, the first prevails throughout all Slavonic history. Even in Russia, where the statute law is considered from the eighteenth century as almost the only form of law, and in the nineteenth century, when the whole law is codified, the great mass of the population, perhaps three-quarters, live according to their old customs and usages preserved only by tradition. The Slavonic law...
Page 11 - The wars of Byzantium, waged against the avowed enemies of the Orthodox Church, demonstrated the necessity of a close union of the State and the Church The defense of itself and its faith against the avowed foes of Orthodoxy led Russian society to the necessity of subordinating all its powers to the State. In various ways militant activities disturb the balance of power between social classes. For one thing the old nobility by blood is depressed in...
Page 81 - Bohemia an eager study of legal precedents and the application of scientific methods, worked out by the glossators and commentators, to home law practice.
Page 36 - ... and furnished revenues to the state treasury. At the beginning (in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries) these classes were almost equal; in the archives we sometimes find requests of the lower nobility (deti...
Page 111 - The knights were guarded from transgressions by the higher pecuniary fines, had real property, and were freed from a great many burdens in exchange for their military chivalry service, but did not take any part in political life until 1370.
Page 11 - Catholic countries, that they are called upon to defend the legal order even against the arbitrary will of the emperor, would have seemed to the Byzantine clergy a hateful heresy.

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