 | 1861 - 882 páginas
...gap between them, but it has a perpetual tendency to reopen : and the greater or less happiness or a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed. This brings us to the second important question to which allusion has been made, namely, what are the... | |
 | Henry Sumner Maine - 1834 - 484 páginas
...or less in advance of Law. We may come indefinitely near to the closing of the gap between them, but it has a perpetual tendency to reopen. Law is stable ; the societies we are speaking V of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude... | |
 | Henry Sumner Maine - 1867 - 494 páginas
...to the closing of the gnp between them, but it has a perpetual tendency to reopen. Lftff Js stable i the societies we are speaking*]"" of are progressive. The greater or less happiness 2f a.£5^rl?_AcP?1^9 ou the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed. A general proposition... | |
 | A. Elley Finch - 1873 - 168 páginas
...necessities and social opinion are always more or less in advance of Law. Laws are stable. Societies are progressive. The greater or less happiness of...depends on the degree of promptitude with which the two are made to coincide. The Roman Jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human... | |
 | Henry Sumner Maine - 1864 - 484 páginas
...or less in advance of Law. We may come indefinitely near to the closing of the gap between them, but it has a perpetual tendency to reopen. Law is stable ; the societies we are spe^king*1^ of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of... | |
 | 1920 - 496 páginas
...of supplying the reason why the courts should be ever alert in closing this "gap." Said Mr. Maine, "The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with <i.'mch the gulf is narrowed." the judicial answer for failure to do so is that appeal should be made... | |
 | Sir Perceval Maitland Laurence - 1878 - 192 páginas
...protects their wealth. We may come indefinitely near to the closing up of the gap between them, but it has a perpetual tendency to reopen. Law is stable...degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed." It may perhaps be doubted whether in a very advanced stage of civilisation, such as that which we now... | |
 | Courtney Stanhope Kenny, Sir Perceval Maitland Laurence - 1878 - 264 páginas
...protects their wealth. We may come indefinitely near to the closing up of the gap between them, but it has a perpetual tendency to reopen. Law is stable...degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed." It may perhaps be doubted whether in a very advanced stage of civilisation, such as that which we now... | |
 | Rajkumar Sarvadhikari - 1882 - 1072 páginas
...people can never be secured, so long as laws are not adapted to the existing social conditions ; and the greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf between law and social necessities is narrowed.2 inheritance There are some curious passages, says... | |
 | National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) - 1884 - 732 páginas
...or less in advance of law. We may come indefinitely near to the closing of the gap between them, but it has a perpetual tendency to reopen. Law is stable ; the societies we are speaking of (he is speaking of the Societies of Western Europe) 'are progressive; the greater or less happiness... | |
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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 the gap between them, but it has a perpetual tendency to reopen. Law is stable... 
