Ancient Law

About this eBook

Author

Maine, Henry Sumner, Sir, 1822-1888

Title

Ancient law : its connection to the history of early society

Credits

Produced by Thierry Alberto, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

K: Law in general, Comparative and uniform law, Jurisprudence

Subject

Customary law

Category

Text

eBook-No.

22910

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22910

Release Date

October 7, 2007

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.ANCIENT LAW — SIR HENRY MAINE — INTRODUCTION BY PROF. J. H. MORGAN — LONDON: J. M. DENT & SONS LTD. NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO. INC. — INTRODUCTION — BIBLIOGRAPHY — PREFACE — CONTENTS — CHAPTER I — ancient codes — CHAPTER II — legal fictions — CHAPTER III — law of nature and equity — CHAPTER IV — the modern history of the law of nature — CHAPTER V — primitive society and ancient law — CHAPTER VI — the early history of testamentary succession — CHAPTER VII — ancient and modern ideas respecting wills and successions — CHAPTER VIII — the early history of property — CHAPTER IX — the early history of contract — CHAPTER X — the early history of delict and crime — INDEX

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