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Dissertations on Early Law and Custom19th Century · English

Henry Sumner Maine's earlier book, cited repeatedly as the source of prior arguments extended in this passage.

That ancient family law is entangled with fictions has long been known.

In a former work I pointed out the number, costliness, and importance of these ceremonies and oblations among the Romans, and I insisted on their probable significance as the source of the peculiar fictions which cluster round early family law (‘Ancient Law,’ p.

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My own conclusion in my ‘Ancient Law’ was thus stated:

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Lectures on the Early History of Institutions19th Century · English

Maine's earlier book on early law, extended by the present Lectures.

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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) the evidence furnished by the history of International Law that the notion of territorial sovereignty, which is the basis of the international system, and which is inseparably connected with dominion over a definite area of land, very slowly substituted itself for the notion of tribal sovereignty.

lecture iii kinship as the basis of society ¶

The slow generation of ideas in ancient times may first be adduced as necessary to the explanation of that great family of Fictions which meet us on the threshold of history and historical jurisprudence.

lecture viii the growth and diffusion of primitive ¶

Ancient Law19th Century · English

The book by Henry Sumner Maine on early legal development, first published 1861.

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

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For many years after the publication of “Ancient Law” this state of things remained unamended.

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Clearly the English materials were not in a fit state, when Maine was writing “Ancient Law,” to be used Edition:

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