 | 1875 - 610 pages
...following just and striking passage : — ' The Anglo-Norman settlement on the east coast of Ireland acted like a running sore, constantly irritating the...tribes would almost certainly have conquered the rest. All the legal ideas which, little conscious as we are of their source, come to us from the existence... | |
 | 1917 - 436 pages
...Anglo-Norman settlement known as the ' Pale ' : a settlement which, in Mr. Lecky's fine imagery, ' acted like a ' running sore, constantly irritating...and deepening the confusion which prevailed there.' Had the attempted conquest been deferred for two or three centuries the Irish tribes would almost certainly... | |
 | Henry Sumner Maine - Comparative law - 1875 - 454 pages
...Brehon law in the shape in which we find it. The Anglo- Norman settlement on the east coast of Ireland acted like a running sore, constantly irritating the...confusion which prevailed there. If the country had Win left to itself, one of the great Irish tribes would almost certainly have conquered the rest. All... | |
 | Margaret Stokes - Architecture - 1878 - 312 pages
...establish a central monarchy in Ireland ; and here we may add the following remarks of Sir Henry Maine : " If the country had been left to itself, one of the...tribes would almost certainly have conquered the rest. All the legal ideas which, little conscious as we are of their source, come to us from the existence... | |
 | Philip Dwyer - Church history - 1878 - 630 pages
...law in the state in which we find it. " And the Anglo-Norman settlement on the East Coast of Ireland acted like a running sore, constantly irritating the...and deepening the confusion which prevailed there." Thus, for example, some of the chieftains gained only a life interest and not a real estate transmissible,... | |
 | Henry Sumner Maine - Comparative law - 1890 - 440 pages
...Brehon law in the shape in which we find it. The Anglo-Norman settlement on the east coast of Ireland acted like a running sore, constantly irritating the...tribes would almost certainly have conquered the rest. All the legal ideas which, little conscious as we are of their source, come to us from the existence... | |
 | Richard Barry O'Brien - Home rule - 1890 - 222 pages
...Henry Maine : " The Anglo-Norman settlement acted like a running sore on the east coast of Ireland, constantly irritating the Celtic regions beyond the...tribes would almost certainly have conquered the rest." J Hallam : " We may be led by the analogy of other countries to think it probable that if Ireland had... | |
 | Sir Henry Sumner Maine - Anthropology - 1893 - 464 pages
...Brehon law in the shape in which we find it. The Anglo-Norman settlement on the east coast of Ireland acted like a running sore, constantly irritating the...left to itself, one of the great Irish tribes would LBCT. n. CHRISTIAN MORALITY AND ROMAN LAW. 56 almost certainly have conquered the rest. All the legal... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - Anglo-Saxon race - 1897 - 386 pages
...of Tory and legalist memory, who writes : "The Anglo-Norman settlement on the east coast of Ireland acted like a running sore, constantly irritating the...tribes would almost certainly have conquered the rest All the legal ideas which, little conscious as we are of the source, come to us from the existence... | |
 | Celtic philology - 1911 - 302 pages
...in the end have developed into one strong monarchy. As Maine says in his "Early Institutes of Law," "if the country had been left to itself, one of the great Irish tribes would certainly have conquered the rest." The Right Honourable James Bryce writes in his introduction to... | |
| |
The Anglo-Norman settlement on the east coast of Ireland acted like a running sore, constantly irritating the Celtic regions beyond the Pale, and deepening the confusion which prevailed there. If the country had been left to itself, one of the great Irish... 
