19th Century · English
Ancient Law
Ancient Law, by Henry Sumner Maine (1822–1888), a public-domain text from Liberty Fund's Online Library of Liberty.
Chapters
- 01Preface to the Tenth Edition.prose
- 02Preface to the Fifth Edition, Preface to the Third Edition.prose
- 03Preface to the First Edition.prose
- 04Introduction.prose
- 05Ancient Law, Chapter I.: Ancient Codes.prose
- 06Chapter II.: Legal Fictions.prose
- 07Chapter III.: Law of Nature and Equity.prose
- 08Chapter IV.: The Modern History of the Law of Nature.prose
- 09Chapter V.: Primitive Society and Ancient Law.prose
- 10Chapter VI.: The Early History of Testamentary Succession.prose
- 11Chapter VII.: Ancient and Modern Ideas Respecting Wills and Successions.prose
- 12Chapter VIII.: The Early History of Property.prose
- 13Chapter IX.: The Early History of Contract.prose
- 14Chapter X.: The Early History of Delict and Crime.prose
In the atlas
fully mappedFigures74
Gaius · Justinian · Hugo Grotius · Jeremy Bentham · John Austin · Montesquieu · Savigny · Ulpian · William Blackstone · Cicero
Ideas82
Feudalism · Jus Gentium · Law of Nature · Patria Potestas · Contract · Themistes · Canon Law · Consensual Contracts · English law · Equity
Places25
Rome · England · France · India · Athens · Italy · Germany · Roman Empire · Scotland · America
Groups56
Roman Jurisconsults · Hindoos · Romans · Franks · Greeks · Prætors · The Church · Athenians · Celtic clans · Comitia
Events
The Reformation · Mancipation · Adoption · Augustan age · Execution of Wills in the Comitia Calata · Expulsion of the Tarquins · First Punic War · Homeric trial-scene · Legis Actio Sacramenti
Objects34
Twelve Tables · Pandects of Justinian · Corpus Juris · Corpus Juris Civilis · Homeric literature · Ancient Law · Bull of Pope Alexander the Sixth · Canon Law · Code of Justinian · Commentaries of Gaius
150 citations · 147 themes · 671 entity mentions — every one anchored to a verbatim passage. The atlas.