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Ancient Law
Ancient Law is a book by Henry James Sumner Maine. It was
first published in octavo in 1861.[1] The book went through twelve Ancient Law; Its
editions during the lifetime of the author.[2] The twelfth edition Connection to the Early
was published in 1888.[3] A new edition, with notes by Frederick History of Society, and Its
Pollock, was published in octavo in 1906.[4][5][6] Relation to Modern Ideas
Author Henry Maine
Lectures delivered by Maine for the Inns of Court were the
groundwork for Ancient Law. Its object, as stated in the preface, Country United Kingdom
was "to indicate some of the earliest ideas of mankind, as they are Language English
reflected in ancient law, and to point out the relation of those Genre Law, History
ideas to modern thought.[7]
Publisher John Murray

References Publication date 1861

Media type Print
1. Maine, Henry (1861). Ancient Law, Its Connection with the Pages 260
Early History of Society, and Its Relation to Modern Ideas (htt
ps://archive.org/details/ancientlawitsco18maingoog) (1 ed.). ISBN 978-1596052260
London: John Murray.
2. The first American edition was published in 1864 with an introduction by Theodore William
Dwight. See Maine, Henry (1864). Ancient Law, Its Connection with the Early History of Society,
and Its Relation to Modern Ideas (https://books.google.com/books?id=qqwpO1T5JD0C&q=ancien
t+law&pg=PR3) (First American from the Second London ed.). New York: Charles Scribner.
3. Maine, Henry (1888). Ancient Law, Its Connection with the Early History of Society, and Its
Relation to Modern Ideas (https://archive.org/stream/ancientlawitsco09maingoog#page/n8/mode/
2up) (12 ed.). London: John Murray.
4. W Harold Maxwell and Leslie F Maxwell. A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of
Nations. Second Edition. Sweet & Maxwell. London. 1955. Volume 1. Page 612.
5. See also Maine, Henry (1920). Ancient Law, Its Connection with the Early History of Society, and
Its Relation to Modern Ideas; with an Introduction and Notes by Frederick Pollock (https://archive.
org/details/ancientlawitscon00mainuoft). London: John Murray.
6. The notes of Frederick Pollock were also published in a separate book. See Pollock, Frederick
(1914). Introduction and Notes to Sir Henry Maine's "Ancient Law" (https://archive.org/details/intro
ductionnote00polluoft). London: John Murray.
7. Pollock, Frederick (1911). "Maine, Sir Henry James Sumner"  (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_
Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Maine,_Sir_Henry_James_Sumner). In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.).
Encyclopædia Britannica. 17 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 432.

External links
Ancient Law, 10th Edition (1908) at the Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/ancientlaw030
840mbp/)

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