TAILIEUCHUNG - Ancient Law

No one who is interested in the growth of human ideas or the origins of human society can afford to neglect Maine's Ancient Law. Published some fifty-six years ago it immediately took rank as a classic, and its epoch-making influence may not unfitly be compared to that exercised by Darwin's Origin of Species. The revolution effected by the latter in the study of biology was hardly more remarkable than that effected by Maine's brilliant treatise in the study of early institutions. Well does one of Maine's latest and most learned commentators say of his work that "he did nothing less than create the natural history. | Ancient Law by Sir Henry James Sumner Maine 1 CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V Chapter of CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X Ancient Law by Sir Henry James Sumner Maine The Project Gutenberg EBook of Ancient Law by Sir Henry James Sumner Maine This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society Author Sir Henry James Sumner Maine Release Date October 7 2007 EBook 22910 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 Ancient Law by Sir Henry James Sumner Maine 2 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ANCIENT LAW Produced by Thierry Alberto Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http Everyman I will go with thee and be thy guide In thy most need to go by thy side. This is No. 734 of Everyman s Library. A list of authors and their works in this series will be found at the end of this volume. The publishers will be pleased to send freely to all applicants a separate annotated list of the Library. J. M. DENT SONS LIMITED 10-13 BEDFORD STREET LONDON E. P. DUTTON CO. INC. 286-302 FOURTH AVENUE NEW YORK EVERYMAN S LIBRARY EDITED BY ERNEST RHYS HISTORY ANCIENT LAW BY SIR HENRY JAMES SUMNER MAINE INTRODUCTION BY PROF. J. H. MORGAN SIR HENRY JAMES SUMNER MAINE the son of a doctor born 1822 in India. Educated at Christ s Hospital and Pembroke College Cambridge. In 1847 professor of civil law at Cambridge 1850 called to the Bar. Member of Indian Council for seven years. Died at Cannes 1888. ANCIENT LAW Illustration SIR HENRY MAINE LONDON J. M. DENT SONS LTD. NEW YORK E. P. DUTTON CO. INC. All rights reserved Made in Great Britain at The Temple Press Letchworth and decorated by Eric Ravilious for J. M. Dent Sons Ltd. Aldine House Bedford

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• Sir Henry James Sumner Maine
• history
• doctrines
• ancient international
• State system
• Mesopotamia
• Syria