| 单词 | breast law |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbreast law breast law n. Manx English (now historical) a law or body of laws passed on by unwritten tradition. [With the semantic motivation compare quot. 1695 and also sense 5b and by heart at heart n., int., and adv. Phrases 1c] . ΚΠ 1636 in Lex Scripta Isle of Man (1819) 107 The Deemsters of the Island do sometimes give Judgment by Laws unknown to his Lordship, or any other of his Councell of that Island, called Brest Lawes. 1695 in E. Gibson tr. W. Camden Britannia 1065/1 From all antiquity, and even at this day, the Manksmen do call their Laws Breast-laws; as being deposited, and locked up in the breasts of their Deemsters. 1860 H. R. Oswald Vestigia Insulæ Manniæ Antiquiora iii. 152 The Manx people..readily submitted to have their breast laws recorded rather than be under the necessity of receiving a new constitution, foreign and untried by them. 1994 Jrnl. Legal Hist. 15 109 Precedential law was simply the development of breast law which had been declared in a previous case. < as lemmas |
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