Bøger af Henry Sumner Maine

On Early Law and Custom is a book written by Henry Sumner Maine and originally published in 1890. It is a comprehensive study of the evolution of law and custom in ancient societies, with a particular focus on the early legal systems of India, Greece, and Rome. The book explores the origins of legal institutions and the development of legal codes, as well as the role of custom and tradition in shaping legal systems. Maine's analysis is grounded in a deep understanding of the historical and cultural contexts in which these legal systems emerged, and he draws on a wide range of sources to provide a detailed and nuanced account of their evolution. This book is an important contribution to the field of legal history and remains a valuable resource for scholars and students of law, history, and anthropology.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

This hugely influential work of 1861 is probably the one for which Sir Henry Maine (1822-88) is best remembered. Appointed Regius Professor of Civil Law at Cambridge when he was only twenty-five, Maine then became Reader in Roman law and jurisprudence at the Council of Legal Education, which had been established in London in 1852 by the Inns of Court, and combined this post with research and journalism. He was interested in the relationship between the law and the society that both shaped it and consented to be regulated by it, and drew on historical examples from the culture of many Indo-European societies to further his arguments on the development of law as a vital component of civilisation. Published at a time when the evolution of institutions as well as of species was a topic of widespread interest, this remains a landmark work in the intellectual history of legal studies.