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Description and Holding Information
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Maine, Dissertations on Early Law and Custom, 1883
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Dissertations on Early Law and Custom Chiefly Selected from Lectures Delivered at Oxford. By Sir Henry Sumner Maine. Published by John Murray (London
1883). 7 + 402 p. The Preface describes the contents of this volume as “[t]wo courses of lectures, delivered by the Author while he [held] the Corpus
Professorship of Jurisprudence in the University of Oxford [and previously] published with the titles ‘Village-Communities in the East and West,’ and
‘The Early History of Institutions.’” There are eleven essays, including The Sacred Law of the Hindus, Ancestor-worship and Inheritance, Theories of
Primitive Society, and The Decay of Feudal Property in France and England; and an Index.
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Title:
Dissertations on early law and custom : chiefly selected from lectures delivered at Oxford / by Sir Henry Sumner Maine, K.C.S.I., LL. D., F.R.S., author of "Ancient law", "Village-communities in the East and West", etc.
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OCLC Number:
958648499
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| Name | Fiche Count | Online | Paper Backup |
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