Ancient Law by Henry Maine 1861 Preface The chief object of the following pages is to indicate some of the earliest ideas of mankind, as they are reflected in Ancient Law, and to point out the...

Chapter 1 Ancient Codes The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code. From the commencement to the close of its history, the expositors of Roman...

Ancient Law by Henry Maine Chapter 2 Legal Fictions When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development. Henceforward the changes...

Ancient Law by Henry Maine Chapter 3 Law of Nature and Equity The theory of a set of legal principles, entitled by their intrinsic superiority to supersede the older law, very early obtained...

Ancient Law by Henry Maine Chapter 4 The Modern History of the Law of Nature It will be inferred from what has been said that the theory which transformed the Roman jurisprudence had no claim to...

Ancient Law by Henry Maine 1861 Chapter 5 Primitive Society and Ancient Law The necessity of submitting the subject of jurisprudence to scientific treatment has never been entirely lost sight of...

Ancient Law by Henry Maine Chapter 6 The Early History of Testamentary Succession If an attempt were made to demonstrate in England the superiority of the historical method of investigation to the...

Ancient Law by Henry Maine Chapter 7 Ancient and Modern Ideas Respecting Wills and Successions Although there is much in the modern European Law of Wills which is intimately connected with the...

Ancient Law by Henry Maine Chapter 8 The Early History of Property The Roman Institutional Treatises, after giving their definition of the various forms and modifications of ownership, proceed to...

Ancient Law by Henry Maine Chapter 9 The Early History of Contract There are few general propositions concerning the age to which we belong which seem at first sight likely to be received with...