Theories and criticisms of Sir Henry Maine / by Morgan O. Evans.

London : Stevens and Haynes, 1896.

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Maine's theories and criticisms.

Maine, Henry Sumner, -- 1822-1888.

Jurisprudence.

Law -- History.

I. Evolution of law; ritual, custom

II. Positive law and sovereignty

III. Primitive society; adoption and ancestor worship

IV. Legal fictions and equity

V. Law of nature and ethics

VI. International law

VII. Origin and history of property; feudalism rent;

VIII. Intestate succession and primogeniture

IX. Wills

X. Married women's property

XI. The brehon law

XII. Contracts

XIII. Cognation and agnation; perpetual tutelage; marriage; father and son; guardian and ward

XIV. Criminal law

XV. Remedial rights; distress; procedure and evidence

XVI. Case law

XVII. Codes; codification and official draftsmen

XVIII. Roman law and legal education

XIX. Comparative jurisprudence

XX. Classification of laws

XXI. Village communities

XXII. Forms of government

XXIII. Theories of Locke, Hobbes, and Bentham on the origin of law.

Includes bibliographical references.

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