Dissertations on Early Law and Custom : Chiefly Selected from Lectures Delivered at Oxford / Henry Sumner Maine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maine, Henry Sumner, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comparative law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (402 pages)

Edition:

Author's edition.

Other Title:

Dissertations on early law and custom

Dissertations on Early Law and Custom, Chiefly Selected from Lectures Delivered at Oxford (Author's ed.)

Dissertations on Early Law and Custom Chiefly Selected from Lectures Delivered at Oxford

Place of Publication:

New York : H. Holt and Co., 1883.

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Contents:

The sacred laws of the Hindus

Religion and law

Ancestor-worship

Ancestor-worship and inheritance

Royal succession and the Salic law

The King, in his relation to early civil justice

Theories of primitive society

East European house communities

The decay of feudal property in France and England

Classifications of property

Classifications of legal rules.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (H. Holt and Co., viewed August 1, 2023).