Ancient Law - Its Connection With Early History of Society, Its Relation to Modern

Informationen zum Autor English lawyer and historian SIR HENRY JAMES SUMNER MAINE (1822-1888) lectured on legal issues at Oxford and Cambridge and contributed to the codification of law in India. His works include Village Communities in the East and the West, The Early History of Institutions, and Popular Government. Klappentext This hugely influential book of 1861 remains a landmark work in the intellectual history of jurisprudence. Zusammenfassung This hugely influential work of 1861 is probably the one for which Sir Henry Maine (1822–88) is best remembered. Published at a time when the evolution of institutions as well as of species was a topic of widespread interest, it remains a landmark work in the intellectual history of jurisprudence. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Ancient codes; 2. Legal fictions; 3. Law of nature and equity; 4. The modern history of the law of nature; 5. Primitive society and ancient law; 6. The early history of testamentary succession; 7. Ancient and modern ideas respecting wills and successions; 8. The early history of property; 9. The early history of contract; 10. The early history of delict and crime; Index.

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• Authors: Henry James Sumner Maine, Henry Sumner Maine, Sir Henry Sumner Maine
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.06.2012
• EAN: 9781108044943
• ISBN: 978-1-108-04494-3
• No. of pages: 430
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; HISTORY / Ancient / General, LAW / Legal History, Ancient World, Legal History, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory