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Henry James Sumner Maine

Henry James Sumner Maine

English Historian

Born: Aug 15, 1822

Died: Feb 3, 1888

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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

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 Human Set

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