Download or read book Introduction and Notes to Sir Henry Maine s Ancient Law written by Frederick Pollock and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Introduction and Notes to Sir Henry Maine s Ancient Law Classic Reprint written by Frederick Pollock and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-21 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Introduction and Notes to Sir Henry Maine's "Ancient Law" There is no better witness to the intrinsic weight of Maine's work than the nature of some criticism it has met with, from competent persons on the Continent rather than at home. So far as those learned persons complain of anything, they miss that symmetrical construction of a finished system to which their training has ac customed them. Now it is to be observed that no words of Maine's own ever gave his readers the promise of a systematic doctrine. Not one of his books professed on the face of it to account for the ultimate origin of human laws, or to settle the relations of jurisprudence to ethics, or to connect the science of law with any theory of politics or of social development. Yet it does not seem to have occurred to the critics in question to charge Maine with remissness in not having attempted these things. The disappointment ex pressed was that he did not fully accomplish them, or that, if he had a solution, he never sufficiently declared it. Regret that Maine's work was not more openly ambitious is legitimate, though I do not share it expression of it might have signified much or little. It might have been thoroughly sincere, and due to imperfect under standing oi the relations to time, circumstances. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Introduction and Notes to Sir Henry Maine s Ancient Law written by Sir Frederick Pollock and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... uncertain to be safely handled on Montesquieu's grand scale. Perhaps he would have done better to confine himself to Vestern Europe. The main defects of his method may be reduced, 1 think, to two. First, he overrated the influence of climate and other external conditions, and underrated, if he did not wholly neglect, the effects of race and tradition. Next, he had not even an inkling of what is now a fundamental rule of this kind of enquiry: namely, that there is a normal course of development for communities as well as for individuals, and that institutions which belong to different stages are not commensurable terms in any scientific comparison. This is as much as to say that even Montesquieu could not wholly escape from the unhistorical dogmatism of his time. It is perhaps a minor drawback that he constantly seeks for reasons of deliberate policy to account for seemingly eccentric features of outlandish customs, rightly or wrongly reported by missionaries or others, instead of endeavouring to connect them with their historic and racial surroundings. But the result is that many chapters of his great work amount, taken by themselves, to little more than collections of anecdotes and conjectures in which the most incongruous elements, such as the customs of China and the laws of Spain, are brought together at random. Also Montesquieu is not free from the very common error, especially prevalent in the eighteenth century, of attributing a constant and infallible eflicacy to forms of government. In short, Montesquieu saw the promised land afar off, but was not equipped for entering it. I do not wish to be understood as affecting to find any fault with him. The greatness of Montesquieu's conception was his own, and the...
Download or read book Ancient Law written by Henry Sumner Maine and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Ancient Law written by Sir Henry James Sumner MAINE and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ancient Law written by Henry Sumner Maine and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his preface, Maine defines his scope: "...the chief object of the following pages is to indicate some of the earliest ideas of mankind, as they are reflected in Ancient Law, & to point out the relation of these ideas to modern thought."
Download or read book Ancient Law written by Sir Henry Sumner Maine and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-15 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Ancient Law Its Connection with the Early History of Society and Its Relation to Modern Ideas written by Henry Sumner Maine and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lectures on the Early History of Institutions written by Henry Sumner Maine and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Victorian Achievement of Sir Henry Maine written by Alan Diamond and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-11-07 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars in the social sciences come together to consider the achievement of Sir Henry Maine.
Download or read book Ancient Law written by Henry Maine and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Henry James Sumner Maine, KCSI (1822-1888), was an English comparative jurist and historian best know for his thesis in Ancient Law that law and society developed "from status to contract." In the ancient world, individuals were tightly bound by status to traditional groups; but in the modern world, individuals are free to make contracts and form associations with whomever they choose.
Download or read book Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society written by Henry Sumner Maine and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-09 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INTRODUCTION 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 of law." This is only another way of saying that he demonstrated that our legal conceptions-using that term in its largest sense to include social and political institutions-are as much the product of historical development as biological organisms are the outcome of evolution. This was a new departure, inasmuch as the school of jurists, represented by Bentham and Austin, and of political philosophers, headed by Hobbes, Locke, and their nineteenth-century disciples, had approached the study of law and political society almost entirely from an unhistoric point of view and had substituted dogmatism for historical investigation. They had read history, so far as they troubled to read it at all, "backwards," and had invested early man and early society with conceptions which, as a matter of fact, are themselves historical products. The jurists, for example, had in their analysis of legal sovereignty postulated the commands of a supreme lawgiver by simply ignoring the fact that, in point of time, custom precedes legislation and that early law is, to use Maine's own phrase, "a habit" and not a conscious exercise of the volition of a lawgiver or a legislature. The political philosophers, similarly, had sought the origin of political society in a "state of nature"-humane, according to Locke and Rousseau, barbarous, according to Hobbes-in which men freely subscribed to an "original contract" whereby each submitted to the will of all. It was not difficult to show, as Maine has done, that contract-i.e. the recognition of a mutual agreement as binding upon the parties who make it-is a conception which comes very late to the human mind. But Maine's work covers much wider ground than this. It may be summed up by saying that he shows that early society, so far as we have any recognisable legal traces of it, begins with the group, not with the individual. This group was, according to Maine's theory, the Family-that is to say the Family as resting upon the patriarchal power of the father to whom all its members, wife, sons, daughters, and slaves, were absolutely subject. This, the central feature of Maine's speculation, is worked out with infinite suggestiveness and great felicity of style in chapter V. ("Primitive Society and Ancient Law") of the present work, and his chief illustrations are sought in the history of Roman law. The topics of the other chapters are selected largely with a view to supplying confirmation of the theory in question and, as we shall see in a moment, Maine's later works do but serve to carry the train of reasoning a step further by the use of the Comparative Method in invoking evidence from other sources, notably from Irish and Hindu Law....
Download or read book Sir Henry Maine written by Raymond Cocks and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A demonstration of the contemporary context and significance of Maine's approach to the law.
Download or read book Ancient Law Its Connection with the Early History of Society and Its Relation to Modern Ideas written by Henry Sumner Maine, Sir and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Law, Its Connection with the Early History of Society and Its Relation to Modern Ideas by Henry Sumner Maine. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1878 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.
