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Notes to Maine, pp. 288-299.Caesar with the greatest clearness and decisiveness, appeared to haveentirely disappeared from France, partly because French society wasexclusively examined for many centuries by lawyers trained either inRoman or in highly feudalised law, but partly also because the institutionsof the Gallic Celts had really passed under the crushingmachinery of Roman legislation.” Here is a theory or determinationof history to be added to the geographic, biological, economic, etc.:it is the legislative and legal determination of history, wherein lawyerscaused the Celtic institutions to disappear and lawmakers crushedthem.4 Christliche Ehe nicht] crossed out.5 Ms.: wive6 Sir] crossed out.7 sehn] doubtful reading.8 Ms.: findet9 Ms.: du10 it] crossed out.11 M s.: fuidshir12 M s.: in the13 Maine, op. cit., p. 102: occupation14 lb., p. 113: lawyer15 Ms.: desshalb16 Cf. Maine excerpts, p. 191; Marx’s position is that sovereignty doesnot lie in the chief, for it is not a personal phenomenon, but a socialinstitution; here it is taken as a phenomenon of the collectivity. Thus,in neither case is it a personal relation of the chief. This is an implicitcriticism of Morgan who held that the form of government in societiesbefore the civilized state was personal, founded on relations that werepurely personal. See Morgan, Ancient Society, op. cit., p. 6 and passim.See Introduction to present work, p. 9.17 Ms.: Willohr18 Ms.: fzs19 Ms.: 33th. Ms.: soccage.20 Ms.: Englishe21 Ms.: times22 Maine, op. cit., p. 132: can.23 On Marx’s relations to Maurer, see Introduction. Hiillmann, perhaps:Carl Dietrich Hiillmann, Geschichte des Ursprungs der DeutschenFurstenwiirde, 1842.24 Ms.: Componanion25 Ms.: suspected26 See note 2 5 5 to Morgan excerpts above.27 Ms.: sam-haisk28 heifers] repeated.29 Maine, op. cit., p. 161: Davis.30 Cf. H. S. Maine, Dissertations on Early Law and Custom, 1886, pp. 181416