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• Preface to the First Edition.
• Preface to the Fourth Edition.
• Lectures On the Early History of Institutions.
• Lecture I.: New Materials For the Early History of Institutions.
• Lecture II.: The Ancient Irish Law.
• Lecture III.: Kinship As the Basis of Society.
• Lecture IV.: The Tribe and the Land.
• Lecture V.: The Chief and His Order.
• Lecture VI.: The Chief and the Land.
• Lecture VII.: Ancient Divisions of the Family.
• Lecture VIII.: The Growth and Diffusion of Primitive Ideas.
• Lecture IX.: The Primitive Forms of Legal Remedies. I.
• Lecture X.: The Primitive Forms of Legal Remedies. II.
• Lecture XI.: The Early History of the Settled Property of Married Women.
• Lecture XII.: Sovereignty.
• Lecture XIII.: Sovereignty and Empire.

PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION.

Since the first edition of this work was published, the materials for opinion on the extremely obscure subject of the ancient Irish Family and its divisions (discussed at pp. 208 et seq.) have been increased by the publication of an additional volume (the fourth) of Brehon Law Tracts, translated into English. The late lamented editor, Dr. Alexander George Richey, has printed in this new volume a very valuable preface, in which the whole of the evidence bearing on the difficult questions at issue is considered. It may be consulted with much advantage.

H. S. M.

October 5, 1885.