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3 unusual facts about Early Irish law


Early Irish law

Brehon law was produced in the vernacular language by a group of professional jurists.

Ireland had no regular central authority capable of making new law and hence the Brehon laws were entirely in the hands of the jurists.

Early Irish law consisted of the accumulated decisions of the Brehons, or judges, guided entirely by an oral tradition.



see also

Binchy

D. A. Binchy (1899–1989), scholar of linguistics and early Irish law, ambassador