Word: self-help
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Professor Paul Vinogradoff, professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford University, delivered the third of his series of lectures on "The Elements of Law" on the subject of "Self-help," in the Lecture Room of Austin Hall last evening. The next lecture will be given tonight at 8 o'clock on the subject of "Compromise." It will be open to the public...
...Self-help or self-assertion of right, which has not yet entirely disappeared from our systems of law, was a fundamental principle of ancient law. In cases of theft or adultery, an individual was allowed to kill the offender if he could catch him, but if not caught the case had to be referred to trial. Persons who claimed lost property, had the right of taking possession of the property, and justifying their possession afterwards. Ancient law did not depend so much on moral right and claim, as upon the assertion of individual interests...
...Oxford, will deliver the third of his series of lectures on the "Elements of Ancient Law" this evening at 8 o'clock in the North Lecture Room of Austin Hall. The subject for the first two lectures was "Comparative Ancient Law," and tonight the lecture will be on "Self-help...
...LECTURES ON ANCIENT LAW. III: "Self-help." Professor Vinogradoff. North Room, Austin Hall...
...LECTURES ON ANCIENT LAW. III. "Self-help." Professor Vinogradoff. North Room, Austin Hall...