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Brehon Law (what is it (focus on developing Tort a system of compensation,…

- - - - many texts lost - gaps to be filled
      - no record of court procedure or decisions
      - useful tool to attack present legal quo, which had bad image among nationals
    - - Eglitarian. lack of difference due to social class
        
        was class driven - difference in class e.g. sick maintenance
        
        man expected to marry woman of equal social class and pay sum to womens father
      - elected Kings democratically
      - humane system - no trial by ordeal
        
        trial - hand in boiling cauldron - innocence determined by if it got infected or not
      - no capital punishment
        
        existed
      - justice precedence over tecnicalities of the law
      - equal law for women
        
        not equal
        
        women could not give evidence in court- untrustworthy - unless they were a nun
        
        no contractual capacity
        
        men could hit wives to correct her as long las it left no permanent blemishes
      - collective property held in common