Early Irish law, commonly known as Brehon law, comprised the statutes and customs that governed everyday life in Gaelic Ireland during the early medieval period. Administered by professional jurists called brehons, it blended native secular custom with Christian principles absorbed after Ireland's conversion. The system continued to operate even after the Anglo-Norman invasion of 1169, coexisting with canon law and the English common law introduced in the twelfth century, and saw renewed prominence from the thirteenth century before English common law became dominant by the seventeenth century. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Entity-backed identity for the legal family value this legal-system already carries as an enum fact, resolved to a legal-system entity by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The enum fact itself stays on the entity unchanged.
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1. Wikipedia: Early Irish law
Early Irish law, also called Brehon law, comprised the statutes which governed everyday life... a civil rather than a criminal codeView the Source Early Irish law (Wikipedia)
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