Uraicecht Becc.

Small Primer. [BB 335 a] What is it wherein judgment is found in the Fenechas language? Original: "berla Feini" The answer is: in truth, in law, and in nature.

The origin, the meaning, and the use of the word "cid" (what) are sought. What is its Latin origin? It is quod. "Cid ni"—what thing, or what law, is it in which is found or discovered the profitable, noble judgment that the Fene (the Irish jurists) speak from their mouths? Where is it until it is delivered, and what is its preserving casket?

The answer is: it is not difficult. That is to say, the sound of the solution is not difficult, nor the sound of the inquiry, for a sage does not dwell on the sound or the word alone, but on the sense.

In truth, that is: the roscad (proverbial utterance). And law, that is: the fasaig (precedents/maxims). And nature, that is: the teistemain (testimonies) or the cosmaili (parables/analogies). These are its preserving caskets, and it is in them that it abides until the judgment is delivered, and it is from them that it is taken.

This is the case when it applies to the act of judging. When it applies to paths of decision, however, what thing, or what law, is it in which there is truly found for the man who comes to the pleading the profitable, noble judgment which the Fene pronounce from their lips? The answer is: in truth, that he recognize the path of decision which is truth; in law, that he recognize the path which is law; and in nature, that he recognize the path which is natural to it, according to the three paths of decision he has put forward.

What is the origin of the word "cid"? Latin. What is its Latin origin? Quis or qui, its masculine nominative; que or qua...

¹ Atagar H.
² Csun H.
³ Gan breit doib rocedoir add. H.
⁴ i.e. justice, legal right, and the fairness of inquiry add. H.; [cf. S.M. I, 272].