Project:Bibliography/Early Irish law/Distraint
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Polity, people and law
- The túath
- external relations
- outsiders
- Rural character
- Rank and status
- dependant status
- unfree status (dóer)
- The kin-group (fine)
- maternal kin (máithre)
Law of persons (1)
- king
- lord and client
- clientship; base client; free client; fuidir (semi-freeman); bothach; senchléithe
- briugu (hospitaller)
Law of persons (2)
- cleric
- poet
- female poet; illegal satirist
- lawyer
- brithem; aigne
- physician
- druid
- manufacturers
- wright; blacksmith; other
Law of persons (3)
- woman
- child
- slave
- captive (cimbid)
Property
Offences
- Contracts, pledges and sureties
- Distraint (athgabál)
- Legal entry (tellach)
- Procedure
- Punishment
Law texts
- Comparative aspects
- early Irish law and narrative
- early Irish law and canon law
- early Irish law and medieval Welsh law
Bibliography
Early Irish law
Law of distraint (athgabál)
Kelly, Fergus, A guide to early Irish law, Early Irish Law Series, 3, Dublin: DIAS, 1988.
177–186; First part of ch. 7: ‘Distraint and legal entry’
Alsos Raae, Hanne-Mette, “Aspects of athgabál aile”, in: Anders Ahlqvist, and Pamela OʼNeill (eds), Medieval Irish law: text and context, 12, Sydney: Celtic Studies Foundation, University of Sydney, 2013. 25–40.
Ahlqvist, Anders, and Pamela OʼNeill (eds), Medieval Irish law: text and context, Sydney Series in Celtic Studies, 12, Sydney: Celtic Studies Foundation, University of Sydney, 2013.
McLeod, Neil, “Fergus mac Léti and the law”, Ériu 61 (2011): 1–28.
Two versions of the saga of Fergus mac Léti are found in legal material associated with the Senchas Már; one in the original text, and one in the eighth-century commentary. The commentary version and §2 of the older version have both been edited by D. A. Binchy. It is argued here that §1 of the older version and §2 of the commentary version are both in verse. The older version is then analysed in terms of the law of distraint. It is concluded that the saga was written as a legal teaching tale, with its plot-twists deliberately designed to highlight aspects of the law. An appendix argues for the inclusion of an additional section, omitted by Binchy, in the commentary version of the saga.
Smith, Amy, “A note on Cethairṡlicht athgabálae”, Celtica 26 (2010): 161–170.
On the meaning of the 'four divisions'.
d'Arbois de Jubainville, Henri, Études sur le droit celtique, 2 vols, vol. 2, Cours de littérature celtique, 8, Paris, 1895.
Hancock, W. Neilson, Thaddeus OʼMahony, Alexander George Richey, and Robert Atkinson [ed. and tr.], Ancient laws of Ireland, 6 vols, vol. 1: Senchus Mor, Stationery Office: Dublin, 1865.
law of distraint (athgabál)
Ahlqvist, Anders, and Pamela OʼNeill (eds), Medieval Irish law: text and context, Sydney Series in Celtic Studies, 12, Sydney: Celtic Studies Foundation, University of Sydney, 2013.
Alsos Raae, Hanne-Mette, “Aspects of athgabál aile”, in: Anders Ahlqvist, and Pamela OʼNeill (eds), Medieval Irish law: text and context, 12, Sydney: Celtic Studies Foundation, University of Sydney, 2013. 25–40.
McLeod, Neil, “Fergus mac Léti and the law”, Ériu 61 (2011): 1–28.
Two versions of the saga of Fergus mac Léti are found in legal material associated with the Senchas Már; one in the original text, and one in the eighth-century commentary. The commentary version and §2 of the older version have both been edited by D. A. Binchy. It is argued here that §1 of the older version and §2 of the commentary version are both in verse. The older version is then analysed in terms of the law of distraint. It is concluded that the saga was written as a legal teaching tale, with its plot-twists deliberately designed to highlight aspects of the law. An appendix argues for the inclusion of an additional section, omitted by Binchy, in the commentary version of the saga.
d'Arbois de Jubainville, Henri, Études sur le droit celtique, 2 vols, vol. 2, Cours de littérature celtique, 8, Paris, 1895.
procedure
Forms of distraint other than athgabál íar fut
tul-athgabál
athgabál immleguin
athgabál aile
The practice in post-Norman times
Act of Edward IV
Textual sources
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