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Maine, Henry James Sumner

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Maine, Henry James Sumner (1822–1888)

English jurist and legal historian. In 1847 he was made regius professor of civil law at Cambridge, and in 1852 reader in Roman law and jurisprudence for the Inns of Court. He was legal member of the Indian Council for seven years. Appointed in 1869 Corpus professor of jurisprudence at Oxford, he was elected a bencher of the Middle Temple in 1881.

He was born in India and educated at Christ's Hospital, West Sussex, and Pembroke College, Cambridge. Maine was called to the Bar in 1850. His best-known work is Ancient Law (1861).



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