 | Richard Theodore Ely, John Huston Finley - 1888 - 594 páginas
...words from Sir Henry Maine : " With respect to them [progressive societies] it may be laid down that social necessities and social opinion are always more...less in advance of law. We may come indefinitely near the closing of the gap between them, but it has a perpetual tendency to reopen. Law is stable ; the... | |
 | Henry Sumner Maine - 1891 - 468 páginas
...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 or less in advance of Law. We may come indeKainitely near to the closing of the gap between them, kbut it has a perpetual tendency to reopen.... | |
 | Sandford Fleming, Canadian Institute (1849-1914) - 1892 - 380 páginas
...almost the vitality of continental law in Europe. Sir H. Maine, in his " Ancient Law," reminds us that social necessities and social opinion are always more or less in advance of law; that law itself is stable, while societies are progressive, and that the greater or the lesser the... | |
 | Seshayangar Srinivasa Raghavaiyangar - 1893 - 700 páginas
...necessities and social opinion," observes Sir H. Maine, " are more or less in advance of law. "We may " go indefinitely near to the closing of the gap between...Law is stable ; " the societies we are speaking of, progressive. The greater " or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of 327 with which the... | |
 | Arthur Cleveland Hall - 1902 - 470 páginas
...compels nations to make selection of a progressive social education, and to enforce it by group pres1 " Social necessities and social opinion are always more...The greater or less happiness of a people depends OH the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed." Maine, p. 24. * Rome, the Teutonic States... | |
 | Augustine Robert Whiteway - 1902 - 224 páginas
...professional subjects, as does the practice of anatomy.1 The same authority calls attention to the fact 2 that social necessities and social opinion are always more or less in advance of law. An instance of the truth of the latter proposition is afforded by the objections raised by our lawyers... | |
 | 1904 - 624 páginas
...Maine says : " With respect to them 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 re-open. * * The " greater or less happiness of a people depends upon the degree " of promptitude with which... | |
 | Henry Sumner Maine - 1906 - 460 páginas
...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...The greater or less happiness of a people depends v- > on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed. A general proposition of some value... | |
 | Edward Westermarck - 1906 - 756 páginas
...opinion and the introduction of a new custom. In all progressive societies, as Sir Henry Maine observes, social necessities and social opinion are always more...them, but it has a perpetual tendency to re-open." 2 ' The moral ideas of a people are less extensively represented in its laws than in its customs. This... | |
 | 1906 - 376 páginas
...instances unduly so, the result will be that every step forward, when taken, will be wisely taken. "Social necessities and social opinion are always...less in advance of law. We may come indefinitely near closing the gap, but it has a perpetual tendency to reopen. Law is stable ; the societies we are speaking... | |
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With respect to them it may be laid down that social necessities and social opinion are always more or less in advance of Law. We may come indefinitely near to the closing of the gap between them, but it has a - /perpetual tendency to reopen. Law is stable-:... 
