Arrange the following stages of development of law according to Maine: 1. Customary law 2. Law made by…

Maine begins with isolated royal judgments attributed to divine inspiration (2). Repeated judgments develop into customs (1); the knowledge and administration of customary law become concentrated in privileged aristocratic or priestly custodians (4); publication of codes then makes the rules available in written form (3). The indicated sequence is 2, 1, 4, 3. This is Maine’s historical account, not a claim that every society necessarily follows identical stages.