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Henry James Sumner Maine Quotes
Henry James Sumner Maine Quotes
Henry James Sumner Maine
English
Historian
Born:
Aug 15
,
1822
Died:
Feb 3
,
1888
Code
History
Known
Law
Truth
World
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Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed.
Henry James Sumner Maine
Happiness
People
Law
Degree
Progressive
Gulf
Greater
Stable
Depends
Which
Speaking
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Societies
Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.
Henry James Sumner Maine
Trust
Sometimes
Tyranny
Doubt
Ought
Our
Lodged
No Doubt
Mere
Abuse
Leave
Authorities
Regarded
Us
Engine
Certainly
Usurpation
Oligarchy
When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.
Henry James Sumner Maine
Law
Once
Embodied
Development
Primitive
Spontaneous
Been
End
May
Code
The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code.
Henry James Sumner Maine
World
System
Most
Known
Celebrated
Begins
Jurisprudence
Ends
Code
The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far as the Roman and Hellenic worlds were concerned, were largely diffused over them at epochs not widely distant from one another.
Henry James Sumner Maine
Class
World
Nation
Every
Worlds
Distant
Ancient
Civilised
Almost
Over
Concerned
Another
Were
Roman
Sample
Which
Them
Far
Show
Code
Largely
Widely
Belongs
The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.
Henry James Sumner Maine
History
Longest
Institutions
Known
Any
Jurisprudence
Roman
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