Dissertations on early law and custom
Subtitle: chiefly selected from lectures delivered at Oxford
By: by Sir Henry Sumner Maine
Publisher: H. Holt and Co.
Published: 1883
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 402
Subjects: Law; History; Ancient Law; Primitive Law; Primitive societies; Ethnological jurisprudence
Other titles: Early law and custom
Notes: Description based on print version record.

"Author's edition."

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Sacred laws of the Hindus; title: Religion and law; title: Ancestor-worship; title: Ancestor-worship and inheritance; title: Royal succession and the Salic law; title: King, in his relation to early civil justice; title: Theories of primitive society; title: East European house communities; title: Decay of feudal property in France and England; title: Classifications of property; title: Classifications of legal rules.