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Early Christian Ireland

T. M. Charles-Edwards · Cambridge University Press · 2000

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Type: Book
Author: T. M. Charles-Edwards
Identifier: DOI 10.1017/CBO9780511495588
Accessed: 2026-09-01

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EstablishedEarly Irish law was expounded by a professional class of jurists (brehons) rather than enacted by kings, and judgments were enforced through sureties and distraint of property rather than by public officers.