Henry James Summer Maine
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Henry James Summer Maine (1822-1888) wrote a book on ancient law.
His ideas were based on literary sources. He studied Roman laws and legal fictions. He came up with the idea that human society moved from status-based to contract-based and from family-based to individually organized law. He was vice chancellor of the University of Calcutta.
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