Excerpt from Outlines of Lectures on Jurisprudence This book, first published in 1861, has gone through many editions in England and America. Pollock's edi tion is recommended. Maine, Early History Of Institutions, 1874. Maine, Early Law and Custom, 1883. Maine, Village Communities in the East and West, 1871. These works of Sir Henry Maine are the foundation of all study Of historical jurisprudence.