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Irish tracts, institutions early Irish law
Íargrinde gach manaig
prose
Short legal text concerning the property (íargrinde) of a deceased monk (manach).
Senchas Már
Introduction to the Senchas Már
prose
The introduction of the Senchas Már collection.
Irish legal commentary on dogs (TCD 1336)
prose

An Irish legal commentary on the types of dogs that are appropriate to every class of legal person. It cites an early Irish legal text, probably Bretha for conshlechtaib, which belonged to the third part of the Senchas Már.

Irish passage on the aigne
prose

Short Irish passage on the advocate (aigne) and the ‘five paths of judgment’ in early Irish law.

Irish tract on defects of cows and sheep
prose
Short Old Irish legal tract on the defects of cows and sheep.
Irish tract on the seven grades of poets (Book of Lecan)
prose

An Irish legal tract on the seven grades of poets (filid). It is one of several prose and verse texts on the subject that ultimately derive from the Uraicecht becc.

Irish tract on the seven grades of poets (NLS Adv. 72.1.7 f. 6)
prose

An Irish legal tract on the seven grades of poets (filid). It is one of several prose and verse texts on the subject that ultimately derive from the Uraicecht becc.

Irish tract on the seven grades of poets (NLS Adv. 72.1.7 f. 8)
prose

An Irish legal tract on the seven grades of poets (filid). It is one of several prose and verse texts on the subject that ultimately derive from the Uraicecht becc.

Irish tract on the seven grades of poets (TCD 1316)
prose

An Irish legal tract on the seven grades of poets (filid). It is one of several prose and verse texts on the subject that ultimately derive from the Uraicecht becc.

Irish tract on the seven grades of poets (TCD 1336 6.1)
prose

An Irish legal tract on the seven grades of poets (filid). It is one of several prose and verse texts on the subject that ultimately derive from the Uraicecht becc.

Irish tract on the seven grades of poets (TCD 1363)
prose

An Irish legal tract on the seven grades of poets (filid). It is one of several prose and verse texts on the subject that ultimately derive from the Uraicecht becc.

Luidh araile ríg dochum Temrach
prose
Short tract on legal judgments concerning horse theft and horse injuries.
Críth gablach
Ma be rí rofesser recht flatho
verse
beg. Mad bé ríg rofessir recht flatha

Legal poem cited at the end of Críth gablach. It numbers 104 lines in Binchy’s edition. 

Ríagail Phátraic
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Saint Patrick
Saint Patrick
(fl. 5th century)
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(ascr.)
Tract on the relationship between church and laity.
Secht rann fichit
prose
Legal note on the 27 virtues
Sechtae
prose
Legal heptads of the Senchas Már collection.
Senchas Már
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The title Senchas Már refers to a collection of law texts which came into being in the Old Irish period.
Toichid brathu coitchinn cha
verse
78 st.
beg. Toichid brathu coitchinn cha
Mac Aodhagáin (Giolla na Naomh) [d. 1309]
Mac Aodhagáin (Giolla na Naomh) ... d. 1309
(d. 1309)
Irish legal scholar.

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Mac Aodhagáin (Giolla na Naomh) [d. 1309]
Mac Aodhagáin (Giolla na Naomh) ... d. 1309
(d. 1309)
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(ascr.)
Early Modern Irish poem (78 stt.) on legal distraint, attributed to Giolla na Naomh Mac Aodhagáin (d. 1309).
Tráchtad ann so arna tharrang a crúadchorp Gaodhailge (Giolla na Naomh Mac Aodhagáin)
prose
Mac Aodhagáin (Giolla na Naomh) [d. 1309]
Mac Aodhagáin (Giolla na Naomh) ... d. 1309
(d. 1309)
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Tract on the áes fíachach
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Short Old Irish legal tract offering a graded discussion of penalities for people who are in some way accountable for a crime, from its perpetrators to its accessories.
Uraicecht becc
prose
Irish legal tract on status