Ancient Law: Its Connection with the Early History of Society, and Its Relation to Modern Ideas by Henry James Sumner Maine

Ancient Law: Its Connection with the Early History of Society, and Its Relation to Modern Ideas

Henry James Sumner Maine

430 pages first pub 1822 (view editions)

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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 jurisprud...

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