...the Family. If then we employ Status, agreeably with the usage of the best writers, to signify these personal conditions only, and avoid applying the term...hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract. CHAP. VI. THE EARLY HISTORY OF TESTAMENTARY SUCCESSION. IF an attempt were made to demonstrate in England...

...the Family. If then we employ Status, agreeably with the usage of the best writers, to signify these personal conditions only, and avoid applying the term...hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract. CHAP. VI. THE EARLY HISTORY OF TESTAMENTARY SUCCESSION. IF an attempt were made to demonstrate in England...

...we employ Status, agreeably with the usage of the best writers, to signify these personal^conditions only, and avoid applying the term to such conditions...hitherto | been a movement from Status to Contract. * CHAP. VI. THE EARLY HISTORY OF TESTAMENTARY SUCCESSION. IF an attempt were made to demonstrate in...

...personal conditions only, and avoid applying the term to such conditions jis are_the immediate or_ remote result of agreement, we may say that the movement...hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract. CHAPTER VI. TITS EARLY HISTORY OF TESTAMENTARY SUCCESSION. IF an attempt were made to demonstrate in...

...Sovereignty. What was the nature of the kingship of our Anglo-Saxon regal houses ? 7. Explain the proposition, that " the movement of the progressive societies has...hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract. 8. Give some account of the various developments in the history of Testamentary Succession. 9. How...

...the Family. If then we employ Status, agreeably with the usage of the best writers, to signify these personal conditions only, and avoid applying the term...hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract. CHAPTER VI. THE EARLY HISTOHY OF TESTAMENTARY SUCCESSION. IF an attempt were made to demonstrate in...

...imperious custom which contained within itself provision for any future modification of those relations. ' The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from status to contract? Erroneous theories as to the original constitution of society have, so far as our discussion has yet...

...and to a certain extent gives the theory of, this matter in a passage which he sums up by saying, * The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from status to contract' •—a movement, that is, from a condition of things in which the relations between man and man are...

...of social order in which all these relations arise from the free agreement of the individual; . . . the movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract." Mr. M'Lennan and other writers have, however, shown that there was an earlier stage when the family...

...it by law or inter i dieted from any means by which they could emerge from it." Sir Henry Maine says "The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from status to contract ; that is, from a condition of life in which relations between individuals are determined by membership...