Sir Henry Maine
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Maine
in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Legal historian, author of Ancient Law and Popular Government, quoted extensively assessing Bentham's character and influence.
”—Maine, Ancient Law, pp.
See Maine, Ancient Law, pp.
Maine, Popular Government, p.
Institutes of Roman Law
Nineteenth-century legal historian cited for his theory in Ancient Law on the origin of testamentary disposition.
To the divergence of the civil (agnatio) and natural (cognatio) families, to the desire, that is, to correct the non-natural devolution of successions, Sir Henry Maine attributes the introduction in Roman jurisprudence of Testamentary dispositions (Ancient Law, ch.
The Law of Torts
Legal historian and comparative jurist whose earlier opinion favoring codification of Indian law is recalled by Pollock.
Sir Henry Maine thought many years ago that the time was ripe for it;