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First published 1883

Dissertations on Early Law and Custom, chiefly selected from Lectures delivered at Oxford

by Henry Sumner Maine

London: John Murray, 1883; Online Library of Liberty edition164 pages

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Author
Henry Sumner Maine
First published
1883
Format
PDF and EPUB
Pages
164
Publisher
London: John Murray, 1883; Online Library of Liberty edition
License
Public domain by publication date.

A third volume of lectures by Sir Henry Maine, published in 1883 after Village Communities in the East and West and Early History of Institutions. Drawn from several of his Oxford courses, it takes up religion and law, the Salic law, feudal property, and the customs of early societies as evidence for how law developed.

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22 chapters · 96,667 words · free to read here

  1. PREFACE.
  2. CONTENTS.
  3. CHAPTER I.: THE SACRED LAWS OF THE HINDUS.
  4. CHAPTER II.: RELIGION AND LAW.
  5. Note A.: WHEEL-PICTURES.
  6. CHAPTER III.: ANCESTOR-WORSHIP.
  7. CHAPTER IV.: ANCESTOR-WORSHIP AND INHERITANCE.
  8. Note A.: HINDU PATRIA POTESTAS.
  9. Note B.: POLYANDRY.
  10. CHAPTER V.: ROYAL SUCCESSION AND THE SALIC LAW.
  11. CHAPTER VI.: THE KING, IN HIS RELATION TO EARLY CIVIL JUSTICE.
  12. CHAPTER VII.: THEORIES OF PRIMITIVE SOCIETY.
  13. Note A.: THE ANDAMAN ISLANDERS.
  14. CHAPTER VIII.: EAST EUROPEAN HOUSE COMMUNITIES.
  15. Note A.: THE GENS.
  16. CHAPTER IX.: THE DECAY OF FEUDAL PROPERTY IN FRANCE AND ENGLAND.
  17. Note A.: VILLAGE-COMMUNITIES AND MANORS.
  18. CHAPTER X.: CLASSIFICATIONS OF PROPERTY.
  19. CHAPTER XI.: CLASSIFICATIONS OF LEGAL RULES.
  20. About Liberty Fund
  21. The Online Library of Liberty
  22. Copyright Information

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