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Henry James Sumner Maine [1822-1888] English Historian
Quote rank: 102

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It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.

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Knowledge, Legal

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