 | Frederick Pollock - Law - 1905 - 480 pages
...sentences, or flf'/x'0™ — which is the same word with our Teutonic word " dooms " — are doubt less drawn from pre-existing custom or usage, but the notion...learned lawyer, or from an authoritative law-book.' (Earl}' Law and Custom, p. 163.) Custom, indeed, is so strong in Homer that the Gods themselves are... | |
 | Henry Sumner Maine - Comparative law - 1906 - 460 pages
...ai.K-1ff cAd'no'.n, Stun tv1v otK dXlyayres . . . H. 384 sqq. " These sentences, or tief1urres — which is the same word with our " Teutonic word '...learned lawyer, or from an authoritative law-book" (" Early Law and Custom," p. 163). Custom, indeed, is so strong in Homer that the gods themselves are... | |
 | England - 1881 - 826 pages
...sentences come directly into his mind by divine dictation from on high. These sentences, or depicTes — which is the same word with our Teutonic word "dooms"...pre-existing custom or usage, but the notion is that they ** re conceived by the King spontaneously or through divine promptingIt is plainly a later development... | |
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dooms ' — are doubtless drawn from preexisting custom or usage, but the notion is that they are conceived by the king spontaneously or through divine prompting. It is plainly a later development of the same view when the prompting comes from a learned... 