| Sir Henry James Sumner MAINE - 1861 - 434 sayfa
...civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction. In China this point has been past, but progress seems to have been there arrested, because the civil...narrowed. A general proposition of some value may be adCHAP. ii. FICTIONS, EQUITY, AND LEGISLATION." >V2Si'Ol)| vanced with respect to the agencies by whWi'Law'^... | |
| 1861 - 882 sayfa
...gap between them, but it has a perpetual tendency to reopen : and the greater or less happiness or a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed. This brings us to the second important question to which allusion has been made, namely, what are the... | |
| A. Elley Finch - 1873 - 168 sayfa
...necessities and social opinion are always more or less in advance of Law. Laws are stable. Societies are progressive. The greater or less happiness of...depends on the degree of promptitude with which the two are made to coincide. The Roman Jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human... | |
| 1920 - 496 sayfa
...of supplying the reason why the courts should be ever alert in closing this "gap." Said Mr. Maine, "The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with <i.'mch the gulf is narrowed." the judicial answer for failure to do so is that appeal should be made... | |
| Henry Sumner Maine - 1875 - 480 sayfa
...beiween them, but it has a perpetual tendency to reopen. (Law is stable ; the societies we are spe >king of are progressive. The greater or less happiness...degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed. • ^ general proposition of some value ma^ie ad. vanced with respect to the agencies by which Law... | |
| Courtney Stanhope Kenny, Sir Perceval Maitland Laurence - 1878 - 264 sayfa
...heavily indebted state which protects their wealth. We may come indefinitely near to the closing up of the gap between them, but it has a perpetual tendency...degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed." It may perhaps be doubted whether in a very advanced stage of civilisation, such as that which we now... | |
| Sir Perceval Maitland Laurence - 1878 - 192 sayfa
...heavily indebted state which protects their wealth. We may come indefinitely near to the closing up of the gap between them, but it has a perpetual tendency...degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed." It may perhaps be doubted whether in a very advanced stage of civilisation, such as that which we now... | |
| Rajkumar Sarvadhikari - 1882 - 1072 sayfa
...people can never be secured, so long as laws are not adapted to the existing social conditions ; and the greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf between law and social necessities is narrowed.2 inheritance There are some curious passages, says... | |
| National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) - 1884 - 732 sayfa
...Law is stable ; the societies we are speaking of (he is speaking of the Societies of Western Europe) 'are progressive; the greater or less happiness of...degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed.' There is sound practical wisdom in these words of our great modern jurist ; not only law reformers,... | |
| Henry Sumner Maine - 1864 - 484 sayfa
...always more or less in advance of Law. We may come indefinitely near to the closing of the gap betweeu them, but it has a perpetual tendency to reopen. Law...narrowed. A general proposition of some value may be ad vanced with respect to the agencies by which Law is brought into harmony with society. These in... | |
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