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" Romans may be taken as the type of them, and they are so described to us that we can scarcely help conceiving them as a system of concentric circles which have gradually expanded from the same point. The elementary group is the Family, connected by common... "
On Early Law and Custom - Page 219
by Sir Henry Sumner Maine, Henry Sumner Maine - 1890 - 402 pages
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Ancient Law: Its Connection with the Early History of Society and Its ...

Henry Sumner Maine - Anthropology - 1861 - 432 pages
...instead of separating at the death of its patriarchal chieftain. In most of the Greek states and in Rome there long remained the vestiges of an ascending series...us that we can scarcely help conceiving them as a system of concentric circles which have gradually expanded from the same point. The elementary group...
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Ancient Law: Its Connection with the Early History of Society, and Its ...

Henry Sumner Maine - Anthropology - 1861 - 432 pages
...instead of separating at the death of its patriarchal chieftain. In most of the Greek states and in Rome there long remained the vestiges of an ascending series...us that we can scarcely help conceiving them as a system of concentric circles which have gradually 'Expanded from the same point. The elementary group...
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The Journal of Jurisprudence, Volume 6

Law - 1862 - 720 pages
...ancient law furnishes some of its most interesting hints. ' In most of the Greek states, and in Rome, there long remained the vestiges of an ascending series...them as a series of concentric circles which have gradually expanded from the same point. The elementary group is the family, connected by common subjection...
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Ancient Law: Its Connection with the Early History of Society, and Its ...

Henry Sumner Maine - Anthropology - 1867 - 494 pages
...In most of the Greek state^v nnd in Rome there long remained the vestiges of an ^* ascending seric-s of groups out of which the State" was at first constituted....us that we can scarcely help conceiving them as a system of concentric circles which have gradually expanded from the Bame point. Jihe .elementary group...
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The Christian Examiner, Volume 85

Liberalism (Religion) - 1868 - 394 pages
...of separating, at the death of its patriarchal chieftain. In most of the Greek states and in Rome, there long remained the vestiges of an ascending series...us, that we can scarcely help conceiving them as a system of concentric circles, which have gradually expanded from the same point. The elementary group...
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The Christian Examiner, Volume 85

Liberalism (Religion) - 1868 - 380 pages
...of separating, at the death of its patriarchal chieftain. In most of the Greek states and in Rome, there long remained the vestiges of an ascending series...us, that we can scarcely help conceiving them as a system of concentric circles, which have gradually expanded from the same point. The elementary group...
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Social Morality: Twenty-one Lectures Delivered in the University of Cambridge

Frederick Denison Maurice - Business ethics - 1869 - 520 pages
...crime to the person of the actual " delinquent. * * * » In most of the Greek states " and in Home there long remained the vestiges " of an ascending..." the State was at first constituted. The Family, LEcT.n. " House, and Tribe of the Romans may be taken " as the type of them, and they are so described...
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Ancient Law: Its Connection with the Early History of Society, and Its ...

Henry Sumner Maine - Comparative law - 1870 - 434 pages
...instead of separating at the death of its patriarchal chieftain. In most of the Greek states and in Rome there long remained the vestiges of an ascending series...us that we can scarcely help conceiving them as a system of concentric circles which have gradually expanded from the same point. The elementary group...
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Social Morality: 21 Lectures Delivered in the University of Cambridge

Frederick Denison Maurice - Social ethics - 1872 - 444 pages
...of crime to the person " of the actual delinquent. * * * * In most of the Greek " states and in Rome there long remained the vestiges " of an ascending...us that we can " scarcely help conceiving them as a system of concen"tric circles which have gradually expanded from the "same point. The elementary group...
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Ancient Law: Its Connection with the Early History of Society, and Its ...

Henry Sumner Maine - Comparative law - 1875 - 480 pages
...instead of separating at the death of its patriarchal chieftain. In most of the Greek states and(uillome there long remained the vestiges of an ascending series...House, and Tribe of the Romans may be taken as the type/of them, and they are so described to us that we can scarcely help conceiving them as a system...
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