Sir Henry Maine died in 1888 and since then his ideas have been used by lawyers, historians, sociologists and many others. This is the first book to concentrate upon what he said about the law itself, and, as such, it explores the pioneering work Maine did in explaining law not by reference to abstract analysis but by placing it firmly in its social and historical context. Instead of concentrating on concepts such as sovereignty he looked at the realities of law as it was practised by professionals and experienced by laymen. The result was a controversial achievement stressing the reforming duties of jurists and citizens at times of social change. This is neither a conventional biography nor an abstract analysis of Maine's thought, but a demonstration of the contemporary context and significance of his views.
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This book concentrates upon what he said about the law itself, and, as such, it explores the pioneering work Maine did in explaining law not by reference to abstract analysis but by placing it firmly in its social and historical context.
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Maine's jurisprudence was characterised by reasoning which began with the analysts of non-legal phenomena and arrived, ultimately, at conclusions about law. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sir Henry Maine, Inns of Court, Saturday Review, John Austin, New York, Law Times, Foundations of the Modern Bar, Law Quarterly Review, Norfolk Circuit, Professor Stein, Fortnightly Review, History of English Law, Max Weber, Sir Carleton Allen, Sir William Jones, Trinity Hall, University College, Edmund Burke, Ferdinand Tonnies, Modern Law Review, Sir Paul Vinogradoff, The Cheyenne Way, The Emergence of Indian Nationalism, The Science of Law New!
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Maine's jurisprudence was characterised by reasoning which began with the analysts of non-legal phenomena and arrived, ultimately, at conclusions about law. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sir Henry Maine, Inns of Court, Saturday Review, John Austin, New York, Law Times, Foundations of the Modern Bar, Law Quarterly Review, Norfolk Circuit, Professor Stein, Fortnightly Review, History of English Law, Max Weber, Sir Carleton Allen, Sir William Jones, Trinity Hall, University College, Edmund Burke, Ferdinand Tonnies, Modern Law Review, Sir Paul Vinogradoff, The Cheyenne Way, The Emergence of Indian Nationalism, The Science of Law New!
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- Ancient Law (1920) by Henry Sumner Maine on 98 pages
- Popular Government by Sir Henry Sumner Maine on 12 pages
- Legal Evolution: The Story of an Idea (The R. M. Jones Lectures in the Development of Ideas) by Peter Stein on 11 pages
- Foundations of the modern bar (The SPTL book series) by Raymond Cocks on 9 pages
- John Austin (Jurists--profiles in legal theory) by W.L. Morison on 4 pages
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- The Reinvention of Primitive Society: Transformations of a Myth by Adam Kuper in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Englishness and the Study of Politics: The Social and Political Thought of Ernest Barker (Ideas in Context) by Julia Stapleton on page 57, and Back Matter
- Epistemology and Method in Law (Applied Legal Philosophy) by Geoffrey Samuel in Back Matter
- Roman Canon Law in Reformation England (Cambridge Studies in English Legal History) by R. H. Helmholz in Front Matter
- The Politics of Jurisprudence: A Critical Introduction to Legal Philosophy by Roger Cotterrell in Back Matter
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