Noun:

ब्रेटन,

brehons's Usage Examples:

have been named after their descent from native judges, who were known as brehons.

natives of Fanad, County Donegal, and a branch of the family later became brehons to the Maguire of County Fermanagh The surname is now anglicised as Breslin.

was their main function, they also appear to have served as poets and brehons to their patrons, possibly even musicians.

Men were linked together by a variety of surety relationships by which they guaranteed one another for the righting of wrongs, and for the enforcement of justice and the decisions of the brehons.

The MacClancy family were the hereditary lawyers or brehons of Thomond.

from 1450 to 1600 and is associated with stories of Clanricarde and their brehons.

but it is unclear how much they would have had to rely on brehons.

The O"Dolans were hereditary brehons of Leinster and sited here.

branch of the bardic Clann Mac Aodhagáin (the MacEgans), who served as brehons for the O"Connors of Clanricarde.

Kings had their own brehons to deal with cases involving the king"s own rights and to.

The O"Davorans were the hereditary lawyers (or brehons) of the O"Loghlen family, who styled themselves "Kings of the Burren" in.

In short, the brehons themselves were not involved in the enforcement of decisions, which rested again with private individuals linked through sureties.

He came from an ancient Catholic family who were brehons (judges), and had a law school at their home, Park Castle, near Tuam.