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Sir Henry James Sumner Maine, KCSI, FRS (15 August 1822 – 3 February 1888), was a British Whig comparative jurist and historian. He is famous for the thesis outlined in his book Ancient Law that law and society developed "from status to contract."
Sir Henry James Sumner Maine. Born: August 15, 1822, Kelso, Roxburgh, Scotland. Died: February 3, 1888, Cannes, France (aged 65) Notable Works: “Ancient Law: Its Connection with the Early History of Society, and Its Relation to Modern Ideas” (Show more) Subjects Of Study: comparative law. Roman law. primitive culture.
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Sir Henry James Sumner Maine (August 15, 1822 – February 3, 1888) was an English comparative jurist and legal historian. Influenced by his experiences in India, Maine compared Eastern and Western ideas, finding common threads in the development of society.
Sir Henry James Sumner Maine was a leading nineteenth-century English jurist. Maine's writings on the social and historical bases of all legal. systems have been recognized for their clarity of thought and style, although modern commentators have criticized Maine for overgeneralization.
Jun 13, 2017 · In this Article, I conduct a long overdue assessment of Henry Maine’s “from Status to Contract” thesis in light of two essentially modern phenomena: contract standardization and relational contracting.
- Katharina Isabel Schmidt
- 2017
May 29, 2018 · Sir Henry James Sumner Maine (1822-1888) was an English legal historian and historical anthropologist and a leading Victorian antidemocrat. Born on Aug. 15, 1822, Henry Maine received his schooling at Christ's Hospital and Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Jan 1, 2016 · Abstract. Maine studied classics at Cambridge, was Professor of Civil Law at Cambridge (1847–54) and was appointed Reader at the Inns of Court in London (1852). The years from 1862 to 1869 he spent as Legal Member of the Council of India.
