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... course of tanistry , or in course of gavelkind . Every seignory or chiefry , with the portion of land which passed with it , went without partition to the tanist , who always came in by election or strong hand , and not by descent ; but ...
... course of tanistry , or in course of gavelkind . Every seignory or chiefry , with the portion of land which passed with it , went without partition to the tanist , who always came in by election or strong hand , and not by descent ; but ...
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... course , sufficient land to keep a family in independence . In Ireland this appears to have been the quantity of land sufficient to graze twenty - one cows or three cumals , the legal qualification of a Bo Aire of the lowest class ...
... course , sufficient land to keep a family in independence . In Ireland this appears to have been the quantity of land sufficient to graze twenty - one cows or three cumals , the legal qualification of a Bo Aire of the lowest class ...
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... course of publication under the title of the Senchus Mor , the great laws . Sir Henry Maine says of them , - " The Senchus Mor , the great book of the ancient laws , was doubtless a most precious possession of the law school or family ...
... course of publication under the title of the Senchus Mor , the great laws . Sir Henry Maine says of them , - " The Senchus Mor , the great book of the ancient laws , was doubtless a most precious possession of the law school or family ...
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... course of the law of England . Neither did any of them in all time plant any garden or orchard , settle villages or towns , or make any provision for posterity . " We have here the picture of a nation enjoying all that con- tributes ...
... course of the law of England . Neither did any of them in all time plant any garden or orchard , settle villages or towns , or make any provision for posterity . " We have here the picture of a nation enjoying all that con- tributes ...
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... course of inheritance and otherwise descended to noblemen of the realm of England , and especially the lands and dominions of the earldoms in Ulster and Leinster , who having the same both they and their heirs by process of time ...
... course of inheritance and otherwise descended to noblemen of the realm of England , and especially the lands and dominions of the earldoms in Ulster and Leinster , who having the same both they and their heirs by process of time ...
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acres ancient Archbishop authority became bishops Brehon code Brehon law cantred cattle century chief chieftain Church Coloured Maps common law confiscation Connaught conquest Council custom Danes Dermod Dictionary dominions Dublin Earl Edition Elizabeth English Essays estates Europe farms forfeited forfeiture G. W. Cox gavelkind Government grant heirs Henry Henry II holdings Illustrations improvement inhabitants Irish James JOHN STUART MILL JOHN TYNDALL justice King of England king's kingdom knights labour land of Ireland landlord Leinster letters patent Limerick live LL.D Lord Deputy M.A. late Maunder's nation Norman occupier officers Oxford Parliament Plates poor population portion possession Post 8vo proprietors R. A. PROCTOR reign rent Roman Rome says seised Senchus Mor sept Sir John Davis Sir Richard Graham Sir William Parsons STUART tanist tanistry tanistry system tenant tenure tion Translated Treasury Ulster vols Waterford whole Wood Woodcuts
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