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SIR HENRY MAINE

SIR HENRY MAINE (1822-1888), English jurist, legal member of the Council in India, and professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford; wrote on "Ancient Law," and important works on ancient institutions generally; regarded the social system as a development of the patriarchal system.


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