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1. "The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction." ~ Henry James Sumner Maine
2. "The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code." ~ Henry James Sumner Maine
3. "The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people." ~ Henry James Sumner Maine
4. "Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny." ~ Henry James Sumner Maine
5. "The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far as the Roman and Hellenic worlds were concerned, were largely diffused over them at epochs not widely distant from one another." ~ Henry James Sumner Maine
6. "The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption." ~ Henry James Sumner Maine
7. "Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed." ~ Henry James Sumner Maine
8. "The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil." ~ Henry James Sumner Maine
9. "The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing." ~ Henry James Sumner Maine
10. "The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one." ~ Henry James Sumner Maine

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