Frederic William Maitland
historical figure · 2 works · 8 mentions · 18 anchored passages
Maitland · Prof. Maitland · Pollock and Maitland
in the texts
The Genius of the Common Law
Legal historian credited with showing that the earlier Year Books were informal lawyers' notes rather than official records.
not official or formal records (as we now know, thanks to Maitland, and as at least one American scholar suspected before), but notes of young lawyers keen on learning their business, and eager to make sure how far they could venture to be ingenious without rashness.
More than this, there was a time when the demand for strong government was virtually leagued against the Common Law with a learned intellectual movement among Romanizing scholars and publicists.
Maitland found the right word for this quality.
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
Legal historian, co-author with Frederick Pollock of the History of English Law before Edward I, quoted and cited extensively on feudal tenure and on the character of Magna Carta.
Pollock and Maitland, I.
Pollock and Maitland, I.
Pollock and Maitland, I.