...people."f Then again, this system divorced law from public opinion. Sir Henry Maine has well observed, that social necessities and social opinion are always more or less in advance of law, and that the greater or less happiness of a nation depends on the degree of promptitude with which...

...may accept it as an augury of good that it has become possible to enact these beneficial measures. " Social necessities and social opinion are always more or less in advance of law." It is the mission of the church of the Lord Jesus Christ to infuse her lofty principles into society,...

...daily life continually gave rise. Society advances, written laws are stationary. As Mr. Maine says, social necessities and social opinion are always more...between them, but it has a perpetual tendency to reopen : and the greater or less happiness or a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the...

...myself in what follows to the progressive societies. With respect to them it may be laid down that social necessities and social opinion are always more...reopen. Law is stable ; the societies we are speaking V of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude...

...development of law. Hereafter, investigations must be confined to progressive races of men. With these, social necessities and social opinion are always more or less in advance of law, Law is stable; society is progressive. How shall this gulf be narrowed which has a perpetual tendency...

...myself in what follows to the progressive societies. With respect to them it may be laid down that social necessities and social opinion are «/ always...tendency to reopen. Law is stable ; the societies we are spe^king*1^ of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of...

...analogous to Disease in the body ; 2 so, precisely as the philanthropic 1 ' It may be laid down that social necessities and social opinion are always more or less in advance of Law. Laws are stable. Societies are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the...

...LAW AND BUSINESS USAGES. Mr. Maine declared in the last century (Ancient Law, p. 24, 8th ed.), that "social necessities and social opinion are always...has a perpetual tendency to reopen. Law is stable ; t hesocieties of which we are speaking are progressive." But it is the next sentence of this self-evident...

...discouraging remark (Ancient Law, p. 24): "It may be laid down that social necessities, and social opinions, are always more or less in advance of law. We may...them, but it has a perpetual tendency to reopen." Our children, perhaps, may see the closing of the gap which lies between the exigencies of our commercial...

...myself in what follows to the (progressive societies. With respect to them it mayBe laid. down that social necessities and social opinion are always more or less in advance of Law.y We may come indefinitely near to the closing of the gap beiween them, but it has a perpetual...