Henry Sumner Maine · Atlas

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Dissertations on Early Law and Custom19th Century · English

The author-narrator, a jurist who lectured at Oxford and wrote on early law and Hindu custom.

The Author continues in these pages the line of investigation which he has followed in former works.

’ and the Author has to express his thanks to the proprietors of those periodicals for their permission to republish his contributions.

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‘The conclusion,’ I said, ‘arrived at by the persons who seem to me of highest authority is, first, that the codified law—Manu and his glossators—embraced originally a much smaller body of usage than had been imagined;

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Lectures on the Early History of Institutions19th Century · English

Author of the Lectures, jurist comparing Brehon and Roman law.

The first volume of these translations was published in 1865;

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In the Lectures printed in this Volume an attempt is made to carry farther in some particulars the line of investigation pursued by the Author in an earlier work on ‘Ancient Law.

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As a rule, when a tenant holding by base tenure died, the lord succeeded in the first instance to his land, a rule of which there are plain traces in our English law of copyhold.

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Ancient Law19th Century · English

Author of Ancient Law, jurist credited with founding the historical/comparative study of law.

“Sir Henry Maine:

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Sir Henry Maine’s “Ancient Law” is now a classical text.

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The Second and Third Editions of this work have been substantially reprints of the First.

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