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Ancient Law, by Henry Sumner Maine.
Surprisingly readable for a legal history book last updated in 1906.
Also, while I am reading the Imperium Press edition, nominally intended to re-expose people to classics of rightist thought, it is amusing to read Sir Maine extolling the virtues of the progressive society of the late 19th-century vs. the Roman law.
He seems to have a particular disdain for the Canon Law and the (his words!) retrogressive concepts of coverture and marital power. It’s interesting, because he seems to be on board with the man leading the marriage, however you choose to define leading, but not with the legal doctrines that mandate such a situation. In this regard, he strikes me as a very modernistic, even borderline woke, thinker. It makes me wonder if Imperium Press just pulled the oldest law book they could find that mentions Rome and uses the word Aryan.
I’m only halfway through though, so maybe he takes a 180 and retvrns later in the book.
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