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100 1 _aMaine, Henry Sumner, Sir,
_d1822-1888
245 1 0 _aAncient law
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2007
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aEveryman's library, no. 734
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Law
500 _aRelease date is 2007-10-07
508 _aProduced by Thierry Alberto, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
520 _a"Ancient Law: Its Connection to the History of Early Society" by Sir Henry James Sumner Maine is an influential work of legal scholarship, first published in the early 19th century. This treatise explores the historical roots of legal systems, emphasizing the evolution of law from primitive societies to more complex modern frameworks. Maine argues that legal conceptions are products of historical development, reflecting the social structures and dynamics of early human communities. The opening of "Ancient Law" introduces the foundational ideas that Maine will elaborate throughout the text. He critiques earlier jurisprudential theories that have approached the study of law from unhistorical perspectives, proposing instead that early legal systems were characterized by communal rather than individualistic foundations. Maine posits that the group, particularly the patriarchal family, served as the foundational unit of early society, which significantly shaped the evolution of legal concepts such as property, contracts, and succession. He sets the stage for examining how these early laws began to transform into more sophisticated systems that align with the needs of increasingly complex societies. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aLaw -- History
653 _aPrehistoric peoples
653 _aComparative law
653 _aLaw, Ancient
653 _aCustomary law
830 0 _aEveryman's library, no. 734
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22910
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