Ancient law : its connection with the early history of society, and its relation to modern ideas / Henry Sumner Maine

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maine, Henry Sumner, 1822-1888, author.

Series:

Cambridge library collection. Classics

Cambridge Library Collection. Classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law, Ancient.

Customary law.

Comparative law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012

Summary:

"This hugely influential work of 1861 is probably the one for which Sir Henry Maine (1822–88) is best remembered. Appointed Regius Professor of Civil Law at Cambridge when he was only twenty-five, Maine then became Reader in Roman law and jurisprudence at the Council of Legal Education, which had been established in London in 1852 by the Inns of Court, and combined this post with research and journalism. He was interested in the relationship between the law and the society that both shaped it and consented to be regulated by it, and drew on historical examples from the culture of many Indo-European societies to further his arguments on the development of law as a vital component of civilisation. Published at a time when the evolution of institutions as well as of species was a topic of widespread interest, this remains a landmark work in the intellectual history of legal studies"-- Cambridge Core

Contents:

Anciet codes

Legal fictions

Law of nature and equity

The modern history of the law of nature

Primitive society and ancient law

The early history of testamentary succession

Ancient and modern ideas repsecting wills and successions

The early history of property

The early history of contract

The early history of delict and crime

Notes:

"This edition first published 1861"--Title page vero

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed September 22, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Maine, Henry Sumner, 1822-1888 Ancient law

ISBN:

9781139177085

1139177087

OCLC:

889946927

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