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Henry Sumner Maine  

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  • Henry Sumner Maine, a Cambridge-educated Englishman, worked as a journalist in London, a colonial administrator in India, and a lecturer on jurisprudence at Oxford and Cambridge. Maine made his mark on the study of law during a most impressive period of legal historiography in Europe, one that featured such luminaries as Frederic Maitland (1850–1906), Otto von Gierke (1841–1921), and Friedrich Carl von Savigny (1779–1861). [Source: Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives; Maine, Henry Sumner (1822–1888)]

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