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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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Henry James Sumner Maine
Age: 65 †
Born: 1822
Born: August 15
Died: 1888
Died: February 3
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