460 Pages
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Routledge
460 Pages
by
Routledge
460 Pages
by
Routledge
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Best known as a history of progress, Ancient Law is the enduring work of the 19th-century legal historian Henry Sumner Maine. Even those who have never read Ancient Law may find Maine's famous phrase "from status to contract" familiar. His narrative spans the ancient world, in which individuals were tightly bound by status to traditional groups, and the modern one, in which individuals are viewed... Read more
INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION, PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION, PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION, I. ANCIENT CODES, II. LEGAL FICTIONS, III. LAW OF NATURE AND EQUITY, IV. THE MODERN HISTORY OF THE LAW OF NATURE, V. PRIMITIVE SOCIETY AND ANCIENT LAW, VI. THE EARLY HISTORY OF TESTAMENTARY SUCCESSION, VII. ANCIENT AND MODERN IDEAS RESPECTING WILLS AND SUCCESSIONS, VIII. THE EARLY HISTORY OF PROPERTY, IX. THE EARLY HISTORY OF CONTRACT, X. THE EARLY HISTORY OF DELICT AND CRIME
Biography
Sir Henry Sumner Maine, Dante J. Scala
