Evolution of law ; ritual, custom -- Positive law and sovereignty -- Primitive society ; adoption and ancestor worship -- Legal fictions and equity -- Law of nature and ethics -- International law -- Origin and history of poroerty ; feudalism ; rent -- Intestate succession and preimogenture -- Wills -- Married women's property -- The Brehon law -- Contracts -- Cognations and agnation ; perpetual tutelage ; marriage ; father and son ; guardian and ward -- Criminal law -- Remedial rights; distress; procedure and evidence -- Case law -- Codes; codification and official draftsmen -- Roman law and legal education -- Comparative jurisprudence -- Classification of laws -- Village communities -- Forms of govenment -- Theories of locre, hobbes, and bentham on the origin of law

1. Maine
2. Henry Sumner
3. Sir
4. 1822-1888
5. Law -- History
6. Jurisprudence