关于公共机构早期历史的演讲-HenrySummerMaine.pdfVIP

英文名著3000 本 Lectures on the Early History of Institutions by Henry Sumner Maine 1875 1 英文名著3000 本 Preface In the Lectures printed in this Volume an attempt is made to carry farther in some particulars the line of investigation pursued by the Author in an earlier work on Ancient Law. The fortunes of the legal system which then supplied him with the greatest number of his illustrations have been strikingly unlike those of another body of law from which he has now endeavoured to obtain some new materials for legal and social history. The Roman Law has never ceased to be spoken of with deep respect, and it is in fact the source of the greatest part of the rules by which civil life is still governed in the Western World. The Ancient Irish Law, the so-called Brehon Law, has been for the most part bitterly condemned by the few writers who have noticed it; and,after gradually losing whatever influence it once possessed in the country in which it grew up, in the end it was forcibly suppressed. Yet the very cases which have 2 英文名著3000 本 denied a modern history to the Brehon Law have given it a especial interest of its own in our day through the arrest of its development; and this interest,the Author hopes, is sufficient to serve as his excuse for making the conclusions it suggests the principal subject