...applying the term to such conditions as are the immediate or remote result of agreement, we may say that the movement of the progressive societies has hitherto | been a movement from Status to Contract. * CHAP. VI. THE EARLY HISTORY OF TESTAMENTARY SUCCESSION. IF an attempt were made to demonstrate in...

...applying the term to such conditions as are the immediate or remote result of agreement, we may say that the movement of. the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract. CHAP. VI. THE EARLY HISTORY OF TESTAMENTARY SUCCESSION. IF an attempt were made to demonstrate in England...

...applying the term to such conditions jis are_the immediate or_ remote result of agreement, we may say that the movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract. CHAPTER VI. TITS EARLY HISTORY OF TESTAMENTARY SUCCESSION. IF an attempt were made to demonstrate in...

...was the nature of the kingship of our Anglo-Saxon regal houses ? 7. Explain the proposition, that " the movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract. 8. Give some account of the various developments in the history of Testamentary Succession. 9. How...

...imperious custom which contained within itself provision for any future modification of those relations. ' The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from status to contract? Erroneous theories as to the original constitution of society have, so far as our discussion has yet...

...and to a certain extent gives the theory of, this matter in a passage which he sums up by saying, * The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from status to contract' •—a movement, that is, from a condition of things in which the relations between man and man are...

...of social order in which all these relations arise from the free agreement of the individual; . . . the movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract." Mr. M'Lennan and other writers have, however, shown that there was an earlier stage when the family...

...it by law or inter i dieted from any means by which they could emerge from it." Sir Henry Maine says "The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto...conquering or conquered races, toward a condition of thiugs in which they are dependent upon contracts entered into by individuals." But although society...

...it by law or interdicted from any means by which they could emerge from it." Sir Henry Maine says, "The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from statua to contract; that is, from a condition of life in which relations between individuals are determined...

...is a consequence of the progress described by the same author in the pregnant observation that ' tho movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from status to contract.' But the old connection of status with the idea of permanence has doubtless an influence upon the line...