the authority of the Old Testament) and divorce, among other actions that canon law expressly forbids. At the same time, it is clear that the two legal systems have borrowed from each other. Much Latin terminology has entered into Old Irish and into the legal system, such as a type of witness from Latin . The also borrows terms found in Brehon law such as from Old Irish , a type of surety. The latter also suggests more substantive borrowing from Brehon Law into canon law. There are a number of places where it is clear that law was borrowed in one direction or another. Large sections on the Church have been translated wholesale from the into a section of the Law tract . Other overlaps have been suggested, in many cases where biblical references seem to appear in the Brehon law. Where both texts cite the same rule, it is not always clear which came up with the rule first. In addition to substantive law, other legal aspects appear in both, such as the propensity towards the use of analogy. Relationship of jurists with the church The above similarities have led scholars to ask what relationship did Brehons have with clerics. Some scholars, known as anti-nativists, have suggested that the Brehons were nothing more than clerics who had training in secular law. In addition to the similarities and evidence of borrowing from Canon law and the Bible, scholars who hold this position ask how any non-Clerics could have been sufficiently literate at this period to create the texts. Other scholars, known as nativists, have asked how the differences could arise if the authors of canon and secular law were indeed the same. Legal texts Scholars have found over 100 distinct texts, ranging from complete texts through various degrees of partial preservation—and in some cases only as a name in a list, and even, in one case, a tract that scholars have decided must have existed. Almost all of the secular legal texts existing in various manuscripts have been printed in D.A. Binchy's six-volume and a few texts left out of that work made it into another book intended as a companion to the . A number of the legal texts may be categorised together on account of related authorship. The largest such grouping is the , a collection of at least 47 separate tracts compiled into a single group