...their place in society, rather than by agreement.78 This is the context in which Maine proclaimed that 'the movement of progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract'.79 In 'The context of contract in Papua New Guinea',80 Roebuck, Srivastava and Nonggorr went...

...in the face of many then-current theories of progress, summarized in Maine's famous statement that "the movement of progressive societies has hitherto...from Status to Contract" (italics in original; Maine 1861: 141). But if this be progress, certainly it would have to have been denied by the Japanese conquerors...

...disputed both propositions. 133 Mill's enlistment of Maine's historical observation in Ancient Law, that the movement of 'progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from status to contract', proved no more than that 'force changes its form'. True, it was now less apparent, better organised...

...distancing themselves from societies based on the family, Maine enunciated his famous conclusion that "the movement of progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract."l05 If stripped of its reference to "progressive societies," this pronouncement about the...

...and "that it must serve, not individuals, but the community." Sir Henry Maine had once stated that "the movement of progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract"; but this change, Follett says, "we do not now consider the history of liberty but of particularism...

...Maine, in a volume entitled Ancient Law, first published in 1861, conjectured that "the movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract" (italics his).1 Rather than using well-defined status systems in stratified social orders, the shift to "contract"...

...in the face of many then-current theor1es of progress, summarized in Maine's famous statement that "the movement of progressive societies has hitherto...from Status to Contract" (italics in original; Maine 1861: 141). But if this be progress, certainly it would have to have been denied by the Japanese conquerors...

...development of legal processes'. 28 Rouland (1994: 21). Maine's (1861: 182) much-cited statement was that '[t]he movement of progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from status to contract'. 29 Neither of these really is a code. The XII Tables are 'rather the transcription of a number of customs'...

...transformation from medieval to early modern society in terms of Sir Henry Maine's 1861 pronouncement that, 'the movement of progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract'.59 As FW Maitland noted, Maine realised that the feudal system was governed by the law of...

...achievement', according to Maine, indicated a systematic approach to the needs of society in relation to law. 'The movement of progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from status to contract': Maine. Maine argued that history indicated within progressive societies a pattern of development within...