Mellbretha

Mellbretha (Old Irish for "Sport-judgements") is a fragmentarily preserved early Irish legal text on the law of sports. The surviving fragment deals with accidental injuries, and the liability they incur, in various sports. It gives the names of twenty-five sports, some quite obscure, but including such games as hurling and fidchell. Because only a fragment survives, the text should be read as a partial record of how early Irish law treated harm arising in play, not a complete code of sporting rules.