Talk:Celtic law

message: In the modern Tribe we primarily utilize the Triads as our body of Law. We see the Triads as a contraction containing the very Spirit of the Brehon Law. We are also bringing forward applicable sections of the Law for use today.
:This is inappropriately written in the first person, and links to articles which seem to have nothing to do with Ireland. -- Beland 01:40, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. The current contents could be merged into Brehon law (if it is reliable) and this article turned into something more general. Rhion 21:12, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

text: The comments you refer to were based on a previous version of the page and do not apply to the present article, which has been completely rewritten. Rhion 05:54, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed weird ending

message: It's a very good article, Thanks! except that there is no very clear paragraph structuring,  the topic is discussed in advanced scholarly terms without many practical layman's terms mixed in to explain some of the scholarly concepts, 
i.e. it's like the terms that a scholarly historian would use with other historians, when an initiate(sic) to the field is present. 
Also, i am interested in practical examples, for example, of treatments of historical cases of manslaughter, theft, etc. not all tort law?!?!
Also, i found no mention of capital and corporal punishments, and it is clear that many societies take a life for a life, if a daughter is killed by a lover, that family will want his death, and will try to obtain it. And i know that every man had a sword at the time, and they weren't averse to a whole lot of blood and gore. So, i was curious what kinds of punishments were known in ancient Europe, i know for example, of the eagle, which i learnt about from a peat bog corpse, that had been split at the thorax, apparently they had a punishment of taking people's lungs out of their body to watch them make an eagle sound as a form of punishment. having been marked by that information, yikes, i was curious to find information on their criminal justice system from any archaeological and historical factual examples, moderate and severe, and i didn't find any info's on that here.
:The blood eagle is associated with the Norse, not the Celts, and the bog bodies are generally thought to be human sacrifices rather than executed criminals. I don't know about other Celtic cultures, but early Irish law was essentially a civil, not criminal, system. The job of the law was not to impose punishments on behalf of the state, the state being very basic at the time, but to adjudicate disputes between individuals and families, most of which were settled by payment of compensation according to the social status of the parties. It allowed for situations where it was permissible for the family of a murder victim to kill the murderer, but did not assume for the state the power to kill murderers. It also allowed for situations where it was permissible for one party to seize property from another (distraint) in recompense for a variety of injuries or torts. But society was essentially composed of more-or-less autonomous kin-groups, with the state and the law having very little power over them, and only providing a framework by which disputes between them could be settled. From what I can tell from reading Caesar, Gaul at the time of the Roman conquest included more developed states which did have the power to impose punishments on criminals, but little detail on Gaulish legal systems has survived. --Nicknack009 (talk) 19:15, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Corporal and capital punishment in celtic societies, and practical examples 

message: There isn't a huge difference with Anglo-Saxon law, relating to slaves, kin-groups, compensation etc.78.18.193.36 (talk) 13:24, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Indo-European laws, not just Celtic? 

message: Some of the sources used in the "Basic Workings" section are not from sources of any real relevance to history but rather the libertarian/anarcho-capitalist theorists Murray Rothbard and Joseph Peden. The primary purpose of them writing those excerpts was not to inform about history but to advance their political ideology. I don't intend to argue about either of their political or economic ideas but I would like that section to be replaced by information sourced from actual historians on the time period. I intend to start looking for different sources but I won't remove what's there for now. FanOfCorvids (talk) 00:43, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Many of the sources listed are not from historians but rather economists.