what are the Brehon laws(i am sorry if i spelt it wrong!!!!)?

Answer 1

The Brehon Laws are early Irish law codes (ie early Middle Ages, mostly pre-12th century). "Brehon" is an anglicized form of the Old Irish word for "judge."
the laws dealt mostly with civil matters (as opposed to religious ones)-- property, social status, compensation for harm to person and property, etc.
hope that helps.

Answer 2

Darling, unless you spell it right, how will you know if any answers are correct. After all there may be something called the Brehon laws as you have spelt it, and also something completely different, that sounds the same but is spelt differently.

Therefore you will never know if the answers you recieve will be correct or not.

Best advise is go and do a search on the internet, so you are sure that your question is correct to the spelling. Otherwise there is no point in posting this question

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Answer 3

The Brehon Laws were the statutes that governed everyday life and politics in Ireland during the Gaelic period. They were partially eclipsed by the Norman invasion of 1169, but underwent a resurgence in the 13th century, and survived in parallel to English law over the majority of the island until the 17th century. The word "Brehon" is an Anglicisation of breitheamh (earlier brithem), the Irish word for a judge. The laws were written in the Old Irish period (ca. 600–900 AD) and are assumed to reflect the traditional laws of pre-Christian Ireland. These secular laws existed in parallel, and occasionally in conflict, with Canon law throughout the early Christian period.

The laws were a civil rather than a criminal code, concerned with the payment of compensation for harm done and the regulation of property, inheritance and contracts: the concept of state-administered punishment for crime was foreign to Ireland's early lawmakers. They show Ireland in the early medieval period to have been a hierarchical society, taking great care to define social status, and the rights and duties that went with it, according to property, and the relationships between lords and their clients and serfs.

Answer 4

The Brehon Laws

The beginning of the 17th Century saw English law and rule prevail in Ireland and the Irish laws outlawed and declared barbarous. These "barbarous" laws had been what had kept the English from implanting its feudal system in Ireland and from completing its conquest of Ireland for four centuries. These ancient "barbarous" laws of Ireland have since been recognized as the most advanced system of jurisprudence in the ancient world, a system under which the doctrine of the equality of man was understood and under which a deeply humane and cultured society flourished.

http://www.irish-society.org/Hedgemaster%20Archives/brehon_laws.htm

http://www.triskelle.eu/history/brehonlaw.php?index=060.030.020

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brehon_Laws

Answer 5

Irish in "early times." "According to legend each province of Ireland had its own king, who reported to the ardri or monarch, who was in the central district, Meath.

Each clan was governed by a chief selected from the most important family--The laws were dispensed by professional jurists called brehons, who received lands and important privileges."