See also:

• SIR

SIR See also:

• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
• HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
• HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
• HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
• HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
• HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
• HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
• HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
• HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
• HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

HENRY See also:

• JAMES
• JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
• JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
• JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
• JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
• JAMES, EPISTLE OF
• JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
• JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
• JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
• JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)

JAMES See also:

• SUMNER, CHARLES (1811--1874)
• SUMNER, CHARLES RICHARD (1790-1874)
• SUMNER, EDWIN VOSE (1797-1863)
• SUMNER, JOHN BIRD (1780-1862)
• SUMNER, WILLIAM GRAHAM (1840-1910)

SUMNER See also:

• MAINE
• MAINE, ANNE LOUISE BENEDICTE DE BOURBON
• SIR HENRY JAMES SUMNER MAINE (1822–1888)

MAINE (1822–1888)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• COMPARATIVE

comparative jurist and historian, son of Dr See also:

• JAMES
• JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
• JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
• JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
• JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
• JAMES, EPISTLE OF
• JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
• JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
• JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
• JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)

James See also:

• MAINE
• MAINE, ANNE LOUISE BENEDICTE DE BOURBON
• MAINE, SIR HENRY JAMES SUMNER (1822–1888)

Maine, of See also:

• KELSO

Kelso, See also:

• ROXBURGHSHIRE

Roxburghshire, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 15th of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1822 . He was at school at See also:

• CHRIST (Gr. X pLQTOS, Anointed)
• CHRIST, WILHELM VON (1831-1906)

Christ's See also:

• HOSPITAL (Lat. haspitalis, the adjective of hospes, host or guest)

Hospital, and thence went up to See also:

• PEMBROKE
• PEMBROKE (Penfro)
• PEMBROKE, EARLS OF

Pembroke See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, See also:

• CAMBRIDGE
• CAMBRIDGE, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• CAMBRIDGE, RICHARD OWEN (1717-1802)

Cambridge, in 184o . At Cambridge he was one of the most brilliant classical scholars of his See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time . He won a See also:

• CRAVEN, PAULINE MARIE ARMANDE AGLAE (18o8—189r)
• CRAVEN, WILLIAM CRAVEN, EARL

Craven scholarship and graduated as See also:

• SENIOR, NASSAU WILLIAM (1790-1864)

senior classic in 1844, being also senior See also:

• CHANCELLOR (M. Eng. and Anglo-Fr. canceler, chanceler, Fr. chancelier, Lat. cancellarius)

chancellor's medallist in See also:

• CLASSICS

classics . Shortly afterwards he accepted a tutorship at Trinity See also:

• HALL
• HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
• HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
• HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
• HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
• HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
• HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
• HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
• HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
• HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
• HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
• HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
• HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
• HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
• HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
• HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
• HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
• HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)

Hall . In 1847 he was appointed regius See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

• CIVIL

civil See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law, and he was called to the See also:

• BAR
• BAR (0. Fr. barre, Late Lat. barra, origin unknown)
• BAR, CONFEDERATION OF
• BAR, FRANCOIS DE (1538-1606)
• BAR, THE

bar three years later; he held this See also:

• CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair till 1854 . Even the rudiments of See also:

• ROMAN

Roman law were not then included in the See also:

• ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary training of English lawyers; it was assumed at the See also:

• UNIVERSITIES

universities that any See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good Latin See also:

• SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar could qualify himself at See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short See also:

• NOTICE

notice for keeping up such tradition of civilian studies as survived . Maine cannot have knownmuch Roman law in 1847, but in 1856 he contributed to the Cambridge Essays the See also:

• ESSAY, ESSAYIST (Fr. essai, Late Lat. exagium, a weighing or balance; exigere, to examine; the term in general meaning any trial or effort)

essay on Roman law and legal See also:

• EDUCATION

education, republished in the later See also:

• EDITIONS

editions of See also:

• VILLAGE

Village Communities, which was the first characteristic See also:

• EVIDENCE (Lat. evidentia, evideri, to appear clearly)

evidence of his See also:

• GENIUS (from Lat. genere, gignere)

genius . Meanwhile he had become one of the readers appointed by the Inns of See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

Court, in the first of their many See also:

• HALF

half-hearted attempts at legal education, in 1852 . Lectures delivered by Maine in this capacity were the groundwork of . See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

Ancient Law (1861), the See also:

• BOOK

book by which his reputation was made at one stroke . Its See also:

• OBJECT

object, as modestly stated in the See also:

• PREFACE (Med. Lat. prefatia, for classical praefatio, praefari, to speak beforehand)

preface, was " to indicate some of the earliest ideas of mankind, as they are reflected in ancient law, and to point out the relation of those ideas to See also:

• MODERN

modern thought." Within a See also:

• YEAR

year of its publication the See also:

• POST

post of legal member of See also:

• COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

council in See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India was offered to Maine, then a junior member of the bar with little practice, few advantages of connexion, and no See also:

• POLITICAL

political or See also:

• OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

official claims .

He declined once, on grounds of See also:

• HEALTH

health; the very next year the See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office was again vacant . This time Maine was persuaded to accept, not that his health had improved, but that he thought India might not make it much worse . It turned out that India suited him much better than Cambridge or See also:

• LONDON

London . His See also:

• WORK

work, like most of the work done by Englishmen in India in time of See also:

• PEACE
• PEACE, BREACH OF THE

peace, was not of a showy See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind—its value is shown by the fact that he was asked to prolong his services beyond the See also:

• REGULAR

regular See also:

• TERM

term of five years, and returned to See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England only in 1869 . The subjects on which it was his See also:

• DUTY (from " due," that which is owing, O. Fr. deu, dil, past participle of devoir; Lat. debere, debitum; cf. " debt ")

duty to advise the See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government of India were as much political as legal . They ranged from such problems as the See also:

• LAND

land See also:

• SETTLEMENT
• SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

settlement of the See also:

• PUNJAB

Punjab, or the introduction of civil See also:

• MARRIAGE

marriage to provide for the needs of unorthodox See also:

• HINDUS

Hindus, to the question how far the study of See also:

• PERSIAN
• PERSIAN, SYRIAN, EGYPTIAN AND TURKISH

Persian should be required or encouraged among See also:

• EUROPEAN

European civil servants . On the civil marriage question in particular, and some years earlier on the still more troublesome one of allowing the remarriage of native converts to See also:

• CHRISTIANITY

Christianity, his guidance, being not only learned but statesmanlike, was of the greatest value . Plans of codification, moreover, were prepared, and largely shaped, under Maine's direction, which were carried into effect by his successors, See also:

• SIR

Sir J . Fitzjames See also:

• STEPHEN
• STEPHEN (1097?-1154)
• STEPHEN (ISTVAN) BATHORY (1533-1586)
• STEPHEN, SIR JAMES (1789-1859)
• STEPHEN, SIR JAMES FITZJAMES, BART
• STEPHEN, SIR LESLIE (1832-1904)

Stephen and Dr Whitley See also:

• STOKES, SIR G
• STOKES, SIR GEORGE GABRIEL, BART
• STOKES, WHITLEY (1830-1909)

Stokes . The results are open to See also:

• CRITICISM
• CRITICISM (from the Gr. KpiTrlS, a judge, Kpivew, to decide, to give an authoritative opinion)

criticism in details, but See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form on the whole a remarkable achievement in the See also:

• CONVERSION (Lat. conversio, from convertere, to turn or ,change)

conversion of unwritten and highly technical law into a See also:

• BODY

body of written law sufficiently clear to be administered by See also:

• OFFICERS

officers to many of whom its ideas and See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language are See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign . All this was in addition to the routine of legislative and consulting work and the See also:

• ESTABLISHMENT (0. Fr. establissement, Fr. etablissement, late Norm. Fr. establishement, from O. Fr. establir, Fr. etablir, Lat. stabilire, to make stable)

establishment of the legislative See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of the government of India on substantially its See also:

• PRESENT

present footing . Maine's See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power of swiftly assimilating new ideas and appreciating modes of thought and conduct remote from modern Western See also:

• LIFE

life came into contact with the facts of See also:

• INDIAN

Indian society at exactly the right time, and his colleagues and other competent observers expressed the highest See also:

• OPINION (Lat. opinio, from opinari, to think)

opinion of his work .

In return Maine brought back from his Indian office a See also:

• STORE (from O. Fr. estor or estoire, Late Lat. staurum or instaurum, stock, provisions, supply, from the late use of instaurare, to provide, properly to construct, renew, restore)

store of knowledge which enriched all his later writings, though he took India by name for his theme only once . This essay on India was his contribution to the composite work entitled The Reign of See also:

• QUEEN
• QUEEN (O.E. cwen, wife, related to "quean," O.E. cwene, a hussy; cf. Gr. yvvi7: from root gan-, to produce; cf. genus, " kin," &c.)

Queen See also:

• VICTORIA
• VICTORIA (or VITTORIA), TOMMASSO LUDOVICO DA (C. I540-C. 1613)
• VICTORIA [ALEXANDRINA VICTORIA]

Victoria (ed . T . H . See also:

• WARD
• WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM (1837- )
• WARD, ARTEMUS
• WARD, EDWARD MATTHEW (1816-1879)
• WARD, ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (1844-1911)
• WARD, JAMES (1769--1859)
• WARD, JAMES (1843– )
• WARD, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1830-1910)
• WARD, LESTER FRANK (1841– )
• WARD, MARY AUGUSTA [MRS HUMPHRY WARD]
• WARD, WILLIAM (1766-1826)
• WARD, WILLIAM GEORGE (1812-1882)

Ward, 1887) . Not having been separately published, it is perhaps the least known of Maine's writings; but its See also:

• COMBINATION (Lat. combinare, to combine)

combination of just See also:

• PERCEPTION (from Lat. percipere, to perceive)

perception and large grasp with command of detail is not easily matched outside W . See also:

• STUBBS [STUBBES], PHILIP (c. 1555-c. 161o)
• STUBBS [STUnnE], JOHN
• STUBBS, WILLIAM (1825-1901)

Stubbs's prefaces to some of the See also:

• CHRONICLES, BOOKS OF

chronicles in the Rolls See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series, and (more lately) F . W . See also:

• MAITLAND (MAITLAND OF LETHINGTON), WILLIAM
• MAITLAND, EAST
• MAITLAND, EDWARD (1824-1897)
• MAITLAND, FREDERIC WILLIAM (1850-1906)
• MAITLAND, SIR RICHARD (LORD LETHINGTON) (1496-r586)

Maitland's monographs . As See also:

• VICE

vice-chancellor of the university of See also:

• CALCUTTA

Calcutta, Maine commented, with his usual pregnant ingenuity, on the results produced by the contact of Eastern and Western thought . Three of these addresses were published, wholly or in See also:

• PART

part, in the later editions of Village Communities; the substance of others is understood to be embodied in the Cambridge Rede lecture of 1875, which is to be found in the same See also:

• VOLUME

volume . The See also:

• PRACTICAL

practical See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side of Maine's experience was not See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long lost to India; he became a member of the secretary of See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state's council in 1871, and remained so for the See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of his life .

In the same year he was gazetted a K.C.S.I . In 1869 Maine was appointed to the chair of See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical and comparative See also:

• JURISPRUDENCE (Lat. jurisprudenlia, knowledge of law, from jus, right, and prudentia, from providere, to foresee)
• JURISPRUDENCE, COMPARATIVE

jurisprudence newly founded in the university of See also:

• OXFORD
• OXFORD, EARLS OF
• OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
• OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
• OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
• OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
• OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST

Oxford by Corpus Christi College . See also:

• RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

Residence at Oxford was not required, and the See also:

• ELECTION
• ELECTION (from Lat. eligere, to pick out)

election amounted to an invitation to the new professor to resume and continue in his own way the work he had begun in Ancient Law . During the succeeding years he published the See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal matters of his lectures in a carefully revised See also:

• LITERARY

literary form: Village Communities in the See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

East and the See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

West (1871); See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

Early See also:

• HISTORY

History of Institutions (1875); Early Law and See also:

• CUSTOM (from O. Fr. costume, costume or coustume; Low Lat. costuma, a shortened form of consuetudo)

Custom (1883) . In all these See also:

• WORKS

works the phenomena of See also:

• SOCIETIES, LEARNED

societies in an archaic See also:

• STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage, whether still capable of observation or surviving in a fragmentary manner among more modern surroundings or preserved in contemporary records, are brought into See also:

• LINE

line, often with singular felicity, to establish and illustrate the normal See also:

• PROCESS

process of development in legal and political ideas . In 1877 the mastership of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where Maine had formerly been See also:

• TUTOR (Lat. tutor, guardian, tueri, to watch over, protect)

tutor, became vacant . There were two strong candidates whose claims were so nearly equal that it was difficult to elect either; the difficulty was solved by a unanimous invitation to Maine to accept the post . His See also:

• ACCEPTANCE (Lat. acceptare, frequentative form of accipere, to receive)

acceptance entailed the resignation of the Oxford chair, though not continuous residence at Cambridge . Ten years later considerations of a somewhat similar kind led to his election to succeed Sir See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

William See also:

• HARCOURT
• HARCOURT, SIMON HARCOURT, 1ST VISCOUNT (c. 1661-1727)
• HARCOURT, SIR WILLIAM GEORGE GRANVILLE VENABLES VERNON (1827-1904)
• HARCOURT, WILLIAM VERNON (1789-1871)

Harcourt as See also:

• WHEWELL, WILLIAM (1794-1866)

Whewell professor of inter-See also:

• NATIONAL

national law at Cambridge . His all too short performance in this office is represented by a See also:

• POSTHUMOUS

posthumous volume which had not received his own final revision, See also:

• INTERNATIONAL, THE

International Law (1888) . Meanwhile Maine had published in 1885 his one work of speculative politics, a volume of essays on Popular Government, designed to show that See also:

• DEMOCRACY (Gr. 3np.oKparia, from S)µos, the people, i.e. the commons, and Kparos, rule)

democracy is not in itself more See also:

• STABLE

stable than any other form of government, and that there is no necessary connexion between democracy and progress . The book was deliberately unpopular in See also:

• TONE, THEOBALD WOLFE (1763-1798)

tone; it excited much controversial comment and some serious and useful discussion .

In 1886 there appeared in the Quarterly See also:

• REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

Review (clxii . 181) an See also:

• ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article on the posthumous work of J . F . M`Lennan, edited and completed by his See also:

• BROTHER

brother, entitled " The Patriarchal Theory." The article, though necessarily unsigned (in accordance with the See also:

• RULE

rule of the Quarterly as it then stood), was Maine's reply to the M'Lennan See also:

• BROTHERS, RICHARD (1757-1824)

brothers' attack on the historical reconstruction of the Indo-European See also:

• FAMILY

family See also:

• SYSTEM

system put forward in Ancient Law and supplemented in Early Law and Custom . Maine was generally averse from controversy, but showed on this occasion that it was not for want of controversial power . He carried the See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war back into the invader's See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, and charged J . F . M`Lennan's theory of See also:

• PRIMITIVE

primitive society with owing its plausible See also:

• APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance of universal validity to See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general neglect of the Indo-European evidence and misapprehension of such portions of it as M`Lennan did See also:

• ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt to handle . Maine's health, which had never been strong, gave way towards the end of 1887 . He went to the See also:

• RIVIERA

Riviera under medical See also:

• ADVICE (Fr. avis, from Lat. ad, to, and visum, viewed)

advice, and died at See also:

• CANNES

Cannes on the 3rd of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1888 . He See also:

• LEFT

left a wife and two sons, of whom the See also:

• ELDER (0. Eng. ellarn; Ger. Holunder; Fr. sureau)
• ELDER (Gr. 1rpev(3iTepos)

elder died soon after-wards . An excellent See also:

• SUMMARY

summary of Maine's principal writings may be seen in Sir lblountstuart See also:

• GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
• GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
• GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
• GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
• GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
• GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
• GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
• GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
• GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
• GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
• GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
• GRANT, U
• GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)

Grant See also:

• DUFF, ALEXANDER (1806-1878)

Duff's memoir .

The prompt and full recognition of Maine's genius by See also:

• CONTINENTAL

continental publicists must not pass unmentioned even in the briefest notice . See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France, See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany, See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy, See also:

• RUSSIA
• RUSSIA (Rossiya)

Russia have all contributed to do him See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour; this is the more remarkable as one or two English publicists of an older school signally failed to appreciate him . Maine warned his countrymen against the insularity which results from See also:

• IGNORANCE (Lat. ignorantia, from ignorare, not to know); want of knowledge, a state of mind which in law has important consequences. A well-known legal maxim runs: ignorantia juris non excusat ("ignorance of the law does not excuse")

ignorance of all law and institutions See also:

• SAVE, or SAVA (Ger. Sau; Hungarian Szdva; Lat. Savus)

save one's own; his example has shown the benefit of the contrary See also:

• HABIT (through the French from Lat. habitus, from habere, to have, hold, or, in a reflective sense, to be in a certain condition; in many of the English senses the French use habitude, not habit)

habit . His prominent use of Roman law and the wide range of his observation have made his works as intelligible abroad as at See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home, and thereby much valuable See also:

• INFORMATION (from Lat. informare, to give shape or form to, to represent, describe)

information—for example, concerning the nature of See also:

• BRITISH

British supremacy in India, and the position of native institutions there—has been made the See also:

• PROPERTY

property of the See also:

• WORLD

world of letters instead of the See also:

• PECULIAR

peculiar and obscure See also:

• POSSESSION
• POSSESSION (Lat. possessio, possidere, to possess)

possession of a limited class of British public servants . Foreignreaders of Maine have perhaps understood even better than English ones that he is not the propounder of a system but the See also:

• PIONEER

pioneer of a method, and that detailed criticism, profitable as it may be and necessary as in time it must be, will not leave the method itself less valid or diminish the See also:

• WORTH
• WORTH, CHARLES FREDERICK (1825-1895)

worth of the See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master's lessons in its use . The rather small bulk of Maine's published and avowed work may be explained partly by a See also:

• FINE

fine literary sense which would let nothing go out under his name unfinished, partly by the drawbacks incident to See also:

• PRECARIOUS

precarious health . Maine's temperament was averse from the labour of See also:

• MINUTE
• MINUTE (Lat. minutes, small; minuere, to make less)

minute criticism, and his avoidance of it was no less a See also:

• MATTER

matter of prudence . But it has to be remembered that Maine also wrote much which was never publicly acknowledged . Before he went to India he was one of the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original contributors to the Saturday Review, founded in 1855, and the inventor of its name . Like his intimate friend Fitzjames Stephen, he was an accomplished journalist, enjoyed occasional article-See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing as a diversion from official duties, and never quite abandoned it . The practice of such writing probably counted for something in the freedom and clearness of Maine's See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style and the effectiveness of his See also:

• DIALECTIC, or DIALECTICS

dialectic . His books are a See also:

• MODEL (0. Fr. modelle, mod. modele; It. modello, pattern, mould; from Lat. modus, measure, standard)

model of scientific exposition which never ceases to be literature .

See Sir A . See also:

• LYALL
• LYALL, EDNA

Lyall and others, in Law Quart . Rev. iv . 129 seq . (1888) ; Sir F . See also:

• POLLOCK

Pollock, " Sir See also:

• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
• HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
• HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
• HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
• HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
• HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
• HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
• HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
• HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
• HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

Henry Maine and his Work," in Oxford Lectures, &c . (189o); " Sir H . Maine as a Jurist," Edin . Rev . (See also:

• JULY

July 1893); Introduction and Notes to new ed. of Ancient Law (1906); Sir M . E . Grant Duff, Sir Henry Maine: a brief Memoir of his Life, &c .

(1892); Notes from a See also:

• DIARY

Diary, Passim; L . Stephen, " Maine " in See also:

• DIET

Diet . Nat . Biog . (1893); See also:

• PAUL
• PAUL (PAULUS)

Paul See also:

• VINOGRADOFF, PAUL (1854- )

Vinogradoff, The Teaching of Sir Henry Maine (1904) . (F .