Sir Henry Maine - A Brief Memoir of his Life

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Description
IT has been thought desirable that a sketch of Sir Henry Maine, somewhat fuller than the notices which appeared after his death, should be prefixed to this volume.
His was a life which contained but few incidents. He was never connected with great affairs, save in India and at the India Office, and the great affairs with which he was connected were not of a kind to attract the attention of even well-informed readers who are not specially interested either in the country to which he gave so much of his thoughts, or in legal history and jurisprudence. His only adequate monument is to be found in his works. A life of him of the regulation size could no doubt be compiled according to the regulation fashion; that is, by stringing together great numbers of his letters to various official personages at home or in India when he was serving at Calcutta or Simla; but they would not be of any general interest, and he was far from being much given to writing letters, either for the pleasure of doing so or for the purpose of keeping up relations with private friends.
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Table of Contents
.Fraudulent Breaches Of Contract
.Divorce
.Emigration
.Whipping
.Official Trustees
.Registration Of Documents Re-Marriage Of Native Converts
.Specific Performance Of Contracts
.Minute On The Same Subject
.Abolition Of Grand Juries
.Law Of Succession
.Small Cause Courts
.Partnership En Commandite
.Over-Legislation
.Minute On The Same Subject
.Judicial Taxation
.Murderous Outrages In The Panjáb
.Indian Municipalities
.Panjab Tenancy
.Civil Marriage Of Natives
.Evidence
.Suspension And Remissions Of Sentence
.Servitude In Oudh
.Legal Education Of Civil Servants
.Small Cause Courts
.The Káthíawár States And Sovereignty
.The Educational Service
.Civil Liability Of Military Officers
.Mr. Prinsep's Panjab Theories.
.Irrigation-Works And Railways
.The Judge Advocate General
.Decentralisation Of Finance
.Salt Duties
.Draft Of Despatch Resulting In Stat
.The Bengal Legislature
.Government Of Bengal
.Simla And Calcutta
.Indian Universities
.Cashmere: Succession Of Collaterals
.Right To Cede By Sanad Portions Of British India
.Right Of Native States To Try Europeans
.Selection And Training Of Candidates For The Indian Civil Service
.Memorandum On Mr. Caird's Report On The Condition Of India
.Study Of Persian
.Index
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Author Details
M. E. Grant Duff