| Raymond Cocks - 1988 - 236 sayfa
...Maine believed that in progressive societies at least, social necessities and social opinion are always more or less in advance of Law. We may come indefinitely...perpetual tendency to reopen. Law is stable; the societies of which we are speaking are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the... | |
| Henry James Sumner Maine - 2000 - 260 sayfa
...societies. With respect to them it may be laid down that social necessities and social opinion are always more or less in advance of Law. We may come indefinitely near to the closing of tlic gap between them, but it has a perpetual tendency to reopen. Law is stable; the societies we are... | |
| John Mackinnon Robertson, G. Astor Singer - 1894 - 700 sayfa
...may be laid down that social necessities and social opinions are always more or less in advance ot Law. We may come indefinitely near to the closing...— the societies we are speaking of are progressive A general proposition of some value may be advanced with respect to the agencies by which Law is brought... | |
| James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1861 - 836 sayfa
...advances, written laws are stationary. As Mr. Maine says, social necessities and social opinion are always more or less in advance of law. We may come indefinitely...between them, but it has a perpetual tendency to reopen j and the greater or less happiness ot a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the... | |
| Pennsylvania Bar Association - 1911 - 472 sayfa
...societies: "With respect to them it may be laid down that social necessities and social opinion are always more or less in advance of law. We may come indefinitely near to the closing of this gap between them, but it has a perpetual tendency to re-open. Law is stable ; the societies we... | |
| Charles Ellewyin George - 1911 - 540 sayfa
...societies: "With respect to them it may be laid down that social necessities and social opinion are always more or less in advance of law. We may come indefinitely near to the closing of this gap between them, but it has a perpetual tendency to reopen. Law is stable; the societies we are... | |
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