...individual man but to the people at large in another custom of early date. The price of life or limb was paid, not by the wrong-doer to the man he wronged,...law were thus made to rest in each little group of people upon the blood-bond which knit its families together ; every outrage was held to have been done...

...system of money-damages had grown up, the price, not only for a life but for a limb, 43 was to be paid by the family or house of the wrong-doer to the family or house of the wronged. A further fact implies this same conception. i'With the Germanic tribes and the early English, along...

...individual man but to the people at large in another custom of early date. The price of life or limb was paid, not by the wrong-doer to the man he wronged,...law were thus made to rest in each little group of people upon the blood-bond which knit its families together ; every outrage was held to have been done...

...of fourteen years of age to find sureties for his good behavior. The price of life and limb was paid by the family or house of the wrongdoer to the family or house of the man wronged — the first effort, it may be said, of the then dawning civilization to make clear to...

...individual man, but to the people at large, in another custom of early date. The price of life or limb wan paid, not by the wrong-doer to the man he wronged,...wronged, Order and law were thus made to rest in each liiile group of English people upon the blood-bond which knit its families together; every outrage...

...individual man but to the people at large in another custom of early date. The price of life or limb was paid, not by the wrong-doer to the man he wronged,...law were thus made to rest in each little group of people upon the blood-bond which knit its families together; every outrage was held to have been done...