User:Tewdar/sandbox/Proto-Indo-European law
PIE law partially reconstructed hypothetical legal system of Proto-Indo-Europeans.
Uses ling. comparative method cognates in descendent attested ie langs reconstr. pie legal tetms and hence institutions, and comparative law compare attested laws to adduce plausible pie legal system.
Focus on order & restitution
social religious context
survival in ancient/modern legal systems
reconstr[edit]
PIE one of only two lang fams (other== Afroasiatic "semitic") allow reconstr prehist legal system[1]
Based on comparative study of ancient Greek, Roman, Hindu, Germanic, Celtic, Slavonic, Iranian, Albanian, & Hittite legal texts[1][2][3]
large corpus of legal texts from Irish, Hittite, scandanavian, roman, greek, [4]
Fortson notes problems reconstr. incl. texts subject to external influence from non IE langs, and txts are later than time of PIE & represent evolution of law from original form[5]
genetic relationships vs generics/universals [6]
ling. reconstr. of legal terms from var. cognate langs reconstructs etyma, and also part of material cult. of speakers of proto language [4]
- ...and archaeology
PIE context[edit]
Archaeological culture associated w PIE still unsettled. blah blah Pontic–Caspian steppe pastoralists vs early agriculturalists from Anatolia. Genetics suggests core IE langs from Pontic-Caspian steppe assoc. w yam cult...[7] Genetics evidence has mainly restricted homeland debate to either s. Caucasus or Iran (CHG) or steppe n of caucasus and black/casp sea (EHG).[8] 'southern arc' blah blah
- c. 3500-3000 BCE, steppe/forest steppe s. russia "somewhere on edge of highly dev. civilizations"[1]
- seminomadic pastoralistm w/ some agriculture.[1]
- no towns, few villages?[1]
- undeveloped social hierarchy based on family units (clans), with a chief and perhaps a king of clan chiefs [1]
Maykop(!) [9]}}pp 159++
Dumézil's tripartite model (religious, sovereign, military) PIE society of priests, warriors, farmers applicable to IE law[10]
Legal terms[edit]
Studies in Indo-European Legal Language, Institutions, and Mythology (Watkins)
Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture , 345
Reconstr of pie legal terminology provides evidence for legal system's actual features.[4]
In IE langs, various words meaning law, confined to individual langs, "However, the chief terms concerned are connected with elements of the common vocabulary and may be evidence for special legal terms going back to Indo-European times."[11]
*legs probably cannot be reconstructed to pie on basis of Latin lex etc. [12]
archaising/conservative etc.[3]
often legal texts from various ie langs are among oldest extant, stylistically archaic or pseudo arcgaic comp. with other non legal contemporary law texts [4]
Relationship between PIE legal and ritual terminology > "law was inseparable from the ritual conceptions that determined the legal norms of the ancient Indo-Europeans. The legal norms of the society were part of the ritual system, controlled by priests who combined the functions of directing spiritual activity and regulating basic societal norms."[13]
*h₂/h₄értus 'fitting, order' [14]
*yew(e)s- 'order'[14]
*dʰéh₁mi-/men- 'what is established, law'[14]
*dʰétis 'what is established'[14][6]
*h₂⸝₃wergʰ- '± commit a crime'[14]
*h₁lengʰ- 'blame, reproach'[14]
*h₁óitos 'a going; oath'[14]
*kʷoineh₂/h₄- 'compensation'[14]
*kʷei- 'pay,compensate'[14]
*serk- 'make restitution'[14]
*deyḱ- 'design ,predestination ,indication, direction, law' [13]
*leyǵ- 'bind, swear oath, swear, bind in obligation' [15]
Legal system[edit]
Overview[edit]
Dictionary of indo-european concepts and society (Benveniste), 385++
Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture , 345
Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans (Gamkrelidze&Ivanov) 701++
the Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (276)
fortson indo-european language and culture 23-24
Mallory/Adams argue that purpose of law in IE society was to maintain social order and harmony [6]
Order of central importance to pie legal sysyem[16]
slave/non-slace opposition found throughout pie legal system [4]
*dʰehi- vs *deik-w - divine vs man-made laws[12]
family vs interfamily laws[11]
Codification[edit]
Indo-European Poetry and Myth (West), 70
Institutions[edit]
Studies in Indo-European Legal Language, Institutions, and Mythology (Watkins)
Restitution[edit]
Sick-Maintenance in Anglo-Saxon Law
Sick-maintenance in Indo-European (Watkins)
Substant. agreement of Hitt. & OIr law, and cognate terms in other IE leg syss allows conclude sick maintenance was component of IE customary law[17]
Crimes are punished, revenge is taken, and compensation is given
[18]
noxality, Lat. sarcīre, Hitt. šarnikzi 'make restitution (specifically within system of noxality)' (also in Greek/Slavic law)[4]
"the institution of noxality in Indo-European society ... belongs to the common Indo-European period."[4]
Father / master pay for damage by son/ slave [19]
Marriage/ Divorce[edit]
Celtic and Germanic Light on Hittite Divorce Law (Eska)
On the interpretation of the 37 of the Hittite laws in the light of other indo-european traditions (Ivanov)
Legal/illegal marriage by abduction[20] (West argues 'Graeco-Aryan' , rather than Indo-European) [21]
Roman law virginem rapere, Hindu law Rākṣasa rite, Irish law lánamus foxail(?) Hittite law 'wolf-marriage'[4]
Theft/robbery[edit]
artefacts/foodstuffs/chattels primary targets of theft in early ie society [4]
theft/robbery opposition (+/- secrecy) prob dates to indo-euro [4]
var. oppositions day/night enclosed/unenclosed violence /non-violence etc [4]
"[this set of features] of the law of theft may be attributed to the common legal system that obtained in the society of speakers of Indo-European itself"[4]
ritual house search in Greek roman German slavic law[4]
'outcry' [4]
Reciprocity[edit]
Oaths[edit]
Determination of guilt[edit]
- ordeal by water (WITCHCRAFT MYTHOLOGIES AND PERSECUTIONS)
Administration of justice[edit]
PUBLIC ORDER IN ANCIENT ROME (NIPPEL)
No public enforcement [19]
Judge, witness etc.[9] p56
*kens- 'proclaim solemnly', censeo, auctoritas etc [22] p423
Suretyship[edit]
Private Prosecution and Enforcement in Roman Law (Friedman) in Roman Law and Economics Volume II
Celtic suretyship: a fossilized Indo-European institution? (Binchy)
The General Features of Archaic European Suretyship (Walters)
Fortson p=24
Socs w/out state apparatus to enforce law may develop other mechs eg suretyship. Early Irish + perh. Roman law evidence that suretyship in these societies may date back common indo euro origin. [23]
enforcer surety & hostage surety [24]
Cows[edit]
Bees[edit]
Comparative perspectives on bee law in Indo-European (Joseph)
Irish Bechbretha, Albanian Kanun
Justice&fertility[edit]
Indo-European Poetry and Myth (West), 422
Outlawry[edit]
wolves etc[25] p100, [26] p301, also West
Hunger strike[edit]
"This legal institution—the last recourse of the weak against the strong—is itself of Indo-European provenience and, as well as in Greece, is attested in India from the Dharmasutras to Mahatma Gandhi and in Ireland from the Senchas Mar to Bobbie Sands" [27]
Citations[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f Zimmer 2003.
- ^ Mallory & Adams 1997.
- ^ a b Fortson 2010, p. 23.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Watkins 1970.
- ^ Fortson 2010, pp. 23–24.
- ^ a b c Mallory & Adams 1997, p. 345.
- ^ Olander et al. 2019, pp. 1–2.
- ^ Mallory et al. 2019.
- ^ a b Serangeli et al. 2020.
- ^ Watkins 1986.
- ^ a b Benveniste 2016, p. 385.
- ^ a b Mallory & Adams 1997, p. 346.
- ^ a b Gamkrelidze & Ivanov 1995, p. 706.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Mallory & Adams 2006, p. 276.
- ^ Gamkrelidze & Ivanov 1995, p. 707.
- ^ Benveniste 2016, p. 386.
- ^ Watkins 1976.
- ^ Watkins 1995, p. 477.
- ^ a b Fortson 2010, p. 24.
- ^ Jamison 1994.
- ^ West 2007, p. 438.
- ^ Benveniste 2016.
- ^ Friedman 2020, p. 335.
- ^ Binchy 1972.
- ^ Olander et al. 2019.
- ^ Kershaw 2000.
- ^ Watkins 1995, pp. 394–395.
Bibliography[edit]
- Benveniste, Émile (2016). Dictionary of Indo-European concepts and society. Elizabeth Palmer. Chicago. ISBN 0-9861325-9-4. OCLC 951159033.
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- Binchy, D. A. (1972). "Celtic Suretyship, a fossilized Indo-European institution?". Irish Jurist (1966-). 7 (2): 360–372. ISSN 0021-1273.
- Fortson, Benjamin W. (2010). Indo-european language and culture : an introduction (2nd ed.). Chichester, U.K.: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4051-8895-1. OCLC 276406248.
- Gamkrelidze, Thomas V. (1995). Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans : a reconstruction and historical analysis of a proto-language and a proto-culture. V. V. Ivanov, Werner Winter, Вячеслав Всеволодович. Иванов. Berlin: M. de Gruyter. ISBN 3-11-009646-3. OCLC 31608214.
- Friedman, David (2020). Roman law and economics. Volume II, Exchange, ownership, and disputes. Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci, Dennis P. Kehoe (1st ed.). Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-182929-1. OCLC 1176512322.
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- Watkins, Calvert (1976). "Sick-Maintenance in Indo-European". Ériu. 27: 21–25. ISSN 0332-0758.
- Watkins, Calvert (1986). "'In the Interstices of Procedure': Indo-European Legal Language and Comparative Law". Historiographia Linguistica. 13 (1): 27–42. doi:10.1075/hl.13.1.05wat. ISSN 0302-5160.
- Watkins, Calvert (1995). How to kill a dragon : aspects of Indo-European poetics. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 1-4294-0648-8. OCLC 252593294.
- West, M. L. (2007). Indo-European poetry and myth. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-928075-9. OCLC 76937305.
- Zimmer, S. (2003). The law's beginnings. F. J. M. Feldbrugge, E.M. Meijers Instituut. Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. pp. 115–136. ISBN 90-04-13705-X. OCLC 53967203.