Henry Sumner Maine citations

“So great is the ascendancy of the Law of Actions in the infancy of Courts of Justice, that substantive law has at first the look of being gradually secreted in the interstices of procedure; and the early lawyer can only see the law through the envelope of its technical forms.”

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Henry James Sumner Maine

‘Dissertations on Early Law and Custom’ (1883) ch. 11.

“The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.”

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Henry James Sumner Maine

‘Ancient Law’ (1861) ch. 5.

“Except the blind forces of Nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin.”

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Henry James Sumner Maine

‘Village Communities’ (3rd ed., 1876) p. 238.