Preceded by: Dissertations on early law and custom : chiefly selected from lectures delivered at Oxford / by Sir Henry Sumner Maine. 1883.
Includes index.
The sacred laws of the Hindus -- Religion and law -- Ancestor-worship -- Ancestor-worship and inheritance -- Royal succession and the Salic law -- The king, in his relation to early civil justice -- Theories of primitive society -- East European house communities -- Decay of feudal property in France and England -- Classifications of property -- Classifications of legal rules -- Index