Citizens Quote by Henry James Sumner Maine

The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one.

— Henry James Sumner Maine

The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by…

— Henry James Sumner Maine

The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place…

— Henry James Sumner Maine

The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation…

— Henry James Sumner Maine

Law is stable the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of…

— Henry James Sumner Maine

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the…

— Henry James Sumner Maine

The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.

— Henry James Sumner Maine

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

The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code.

— Henry James Sumner Maine

The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.

— Henry James Sumner Maine

The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so…

— Henry James Sumner Maine

The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.

— Henry James Sumner Maine