Village-communities in the East and West: Six Lectures Delivered at Oxford

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J. Murray, 1872 - 226 sayfa
 

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Sayfa 123 - India in which the village community is most perfect and in which there are the clearest signs of an original proprietary, equality between all the families composing the group, the authority exercised elsewhere by the Headman is lodged with the village Council. It is always viewed as a representative body, and not as a body possessing inherent authority, and whatever be its real number it always bears a name which recalls its ancient constitution of five persons.
Sayfa 68 - In the almost inconceivable case of disobedience to the award of the village council, the sole punishment, or the sole certain punishment, would appear to be universal disapprobation33.
Sayfa 192 - In order to understand what a market originally was, you must try to picture to yourselves a territory occupied by village-communities, self-acting and as yet autonomous, each cultivating its arable land in the middle of its waste, and each, I fear I must add, at perpetual war with its neighbour. But at several points, points probably where the domains of two or three villages converged, there appear to have been...
Sayfa 150 - Do you, reversing this policy, arrange that the superior holder shall be answerable to Government ? You find that you have created a landed aristocracy which has no parallel in wealth or power except the proprietors of English soil.
Sayfa 6 - I think I may venture to affirm," Sir Henry Maine says, "that the Comparative Method, which has already been fruitful of such wonderful results, is not distinguishable in some of its applications from the Historical Method. We take a number of contemporary facts, ideas, and customs, and we infer the past form of those facts, ideas, and customs...
Sayfa 28 - It is by its indirect and for the most part unintended influence', wrote Sir Henry Maine, the author of Ancient Law, 'that the British power metamorphoses and dissolves the ideas and social forms underneath it, nor is there any expedient by which it can escape the duty of rebuilding upon its own principles that which it unwillingly destroys We do not destroy in mere arrogance.
Sayfa 88 - Bonn, his statements declare that in his time, only some eighty years back, " in almost all parts of the country, in the Midland and Eastern Counties particularly, but also in the West— -in Wiltshire for example — in the South, as in Surrey, in the North, as in Yorkshire, there are extensive open and common fields.
Sayfa 196 - ... friend ? It can hardly be said that there is any rule of morality to forbid it. The feeling seems to me to bear the traces of the old notion that men united in natural groups do not deal with one another on principles of trade.
Sayfa 126 - There are several English parishes in which certain pieces of land in the common field have from time immemorial been known by the name of a particular trade ; and there is often a popular belief that nobody, not following the trade, can legally be owner of the lot associated with it.
Sayfa 112 - ... nor do they assume to be dictated by a sense of equity ; there is always, I am assured, a sort of fiction under which some customs as to the distribution of water are supposed to have emanated from a remote antiquity, although, in fact, no such artificial supply had ever been so much as thought of.

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