...chiefly with regard to the position they hold in the family or in the community. In other words as " the movement of progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract,"2 so, in returning to primitive times, we must follow the reverse order ; we must cease to...

...each from the English and oman systems. 8. Explain and justify the statement of Sir Henry Maine that the movement of progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from status to contract. 9. Speaking of Austin, Sir Henry Maine remarks, "The way in which Hobbes and he bring such codes of...

...seemed at one time remote or obsolete. One of the best known aphorisms in his Ancient Law is ' that the movement of progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract ' ; and in one of his speeches he observed that ' all the modern progress of society seemed to be intimately...

...seemed at one time remote or obsolete. One of the best known aphorisms in his Ancient Law is ' that the movement of progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract ' ; and in one of his speeches he observed that ' all the modern progress of society seemed to be intimately...

...history, we merely strive to analvse our prima facie impressions. ' It is common learning now that the movement of progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from status to contract2; but little more than a beginning has been made in the discovery of the actual stages of...

...contract, so for one moment we must glance at another side of the picture. The master who taught us that ' the movement of progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract,' was quick to add that feudal society was governed by the law of contract 3. There is no paradox here....

...Relations, p. 539.) This statement will at one recall the well=knowu formula of Sir Henry Maine. " The movement of progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from status to contract." As we have just seen, adoption is with us merely a matter of contract, of engagement between man and...

...is inimical to individuality ; That the civilisation of the country proceeds from the town ; That ' the movement of progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract' (ie, from a condition in which the individual's rights and duties depend on his caste, or position...

...based on contract; and the conclusion stated by HS Maine, in his treatise on Ancient Law (1861), "that the movement of progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from status to contract," may be taken as embodying the general theory prevalent at that time in regard to legislation for Irish...

...Maitland, who closed their chapter on contract with the sound conclusion: "The master who taught us that the 'movement of progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from status to contract' was quick to add that feudal society was governed by the law of contract. There is no paradox here....