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SMALL PRIMER.
What is it wherein judgment is found in the Feine language? Answer—In truth, and law, and nature.
The origin and meaning and use of the word ‘cid’ (what) are required? That is, quod is its Latin origin. What is the thing, what is the law, in which is found, or in which is discovered, the profitable noble judgment which the Feine speak from their mouths: where is it until it is delivered, and what is its preserving casket?
‘Ninsa,’ i.e. this is not difficult, i.e. this is not hard, i.e. the sound of the solution is not difficult, nor the sound of the interrogation, for a sage does not stick in the sound, in the word ever, but in the sense.
In truth, i.e. of glossary. And law, i.e. of the maxim (or precedent). And nature, i.e. of the testimony, or of the parable; and these are its preserving caskets, and it is in them it abides until the judgment is delivered, and it is out of them it is taken.
This is the case when it (the word) applies to judging. When, however, it applies to paths of decision, what thing or what path, what is the law in which there is truly found for the man who comes to the pleading the profitable noble judgment which the Feine pronounce from their lips? Answer.—In truth, i.e. that he know the path of decision which is truth. And law, i.e. that he know the path which is law. And nature, i.e. that he know the path which is natural for it, on the three paths of decision which he has put forward.
What is the origin of the word ‘cid’? i.e. Latin. What is its Latin origin? Quis vel qui, i.e. its masculine nominative; que
‘Feine language’, Berla Feine, constantly glossed by Fenechus, a technical name for the body of Brehon Law.