| Henry Sumner Maine - Anthropology - 1861 - 432 pages
...applying the term to such conditions as are the immediate or remote result of agreement, we may say that the movement of. the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract. CHAP. VI. THE EARLY HISTORY OF TESTAMENTARY SUCCESSION. IF an attempt were made to demonstrate in England... | |
| Henry Sumner Maine - Anthropology - 1861 - 432 pages
...applying the term to such conditions as are the immediate or remote result of agreement, we may say that the movement of the progressive societies has hitherto | been a movement from Status to Contract. * CHAP. VI. THE EARLY HISTORY OF TESTAMENTARY SUCCESSION. IF an attempt were made to demonstrate in... | |
| Henry Sumner Maine - Anthropology - 1867 - 494 pages
...applying the term to such conditions jis are_the immediate or_ remote result of agreement, we may say that the movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract. CHAPTER VI. TITS EARLY HISTORY OF TESTAMENTARY SUCCESSION. IF an attempt were made to demonstrate in... | |
| Dublin city, univ - 1869 - 336 pages
...was the nature of the kingship of our Anglo-Saxon regal houses ? 7. Explain the proposition, that " the movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract. 8. Give some account of the various developments in the history of Testamentary Succession. 9. How... | |
| 1871
...imperious custom which contained within itself provision for any future modification of those relations. ' The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from status to contract? Erroneous theories as to the original constitution of society have, so far as our discussion has yet... | |
| Æneas James G. Mackay - 1873 - 362 pages
...of social order in which all these relations arise from the free agreement of the individual; . . . the movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract." Mr. M'Lennan and other writers have, however, shown that there was an earlier stage when the family... | |
| United States. Congress. House - United States - 1876 - 1076 pages
...law or inter i dieted from any means by which they could emerge from it." Sir Henry Maine saya 27 L "The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from status to contract ; that is, from a condition of life in which relations between individuals are determined by membership... | |
| John Austin - Jurisprudence - 1880 - 552 pages
...is a consequence of the progress described by the same author in the pregnant observation that ' tho movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from status to contract.' But the old connection of status with the idea of permanence has doubtless an influence upon the line... | |
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