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THE


EARLY HISTORY


OF THE


PROPERTY OF MARRIED WOMEN,


AS COLLECTED FROM ROMAN AND HINDOO LAW.



A Lecture,

Delivered at Birmingham, March 25, 1873,

BY

SIR HENRY SUMNER MAINE, K.C.S.I., D.C.L,

Member of the Council of India and Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence in the
University of Oxford.



This Lecture, the substance of which forms part of an unpublished work, is reprinted for the
Married Women's Property Committee, with the permission of the author.



MANCHESTER:
A. IRELAND AND CO., PRINTERS, PALL MALL.