MAINE SIR HENRY JAMES SUMNER 1822 - 1888 KT JURIST

Notebooks, lectures and papers on law. See also Coll Misc 0481.

THIS COLLECTION HAS BEEN MICROFILMED AND THE ORIGINALS WITHDRAWN FROM PUBLIC USE FOR PRESERVATION PURPOSES. THE MICROFILM MUST BE USED. The collection includes:

• Volume 6 a. Notes relating to Maine's publication Early History of Institutions 1875.
• Volume 6 b. Notes relating to Maine's publications Village Communities and Dissertations on Early Law and Customs c 1876.
• Volume 8 Notes relating to Dissertations...
• Volume 9 Notes relating to Dissertations...
• Volume 11 Notes relating to Dissertations...
• Volume 12 Notes relating to Dissertations... c 1884.
• Volume 13 Notes relating to Dissertations... c 1848 - 1855.
• Volume 14 Notes relating to Maine's publication Popular Government c 1885.
• Volume 15 Notes relating to a unsigned review, published in Quarterly Review vol. 162 (1886).
• Volume 16 Notes relating to Maine's article 'India' in Reign of Queen Victoria c 1887.
• Volume 17 Notes relating to Maine's publication International Law
• Volume 19 Notes relating to Village Communities c 1875.

Sir Henry James Sumner Maine 1822 - 1888

Sir Henry Sumner Maine was educated at Christ's Hospital, London and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He became a junior tutor at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1845 - 1847 and Regius Professor of Civil Law 1847 - 1854. In 1850 he was called to the bar and became a reader in Roman law and jurisprudence at the Inns of Court, 1852. He contributed to the Saturday Review from its establishment in 1855. He was a legal member of the council of India, 1862 - 1869 and was appointed to a seat on the Indian Council in 1871. In the same year he was appointed as a Knight Commander of the Star of India.

In 1869 he moved to Oxford to become Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence until 1877 when he moved back to Cambridge to become master of Trinity Hall until his death in 1888. In 1887 he was made Whewell Professor of International Law at Cambridge. He was one of the earliest to apply the historical method to the study of political institutions.

His publications include:

• Ancient Law: its Connection with the Early History of Society and its Relations to Modern Ideas (1861)
• Village Communities (1871)
• Early History of Institutions (1875)
• Dissertations on Early Law and Customs (1883)
• Popular Government (1885)
• International Law (1888)

Arranged in 25 volumes.

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Laski, H.J.

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