State, trust and corporation
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State, trust and corporation
(Cambridge texts in the history of political thought)
Cambridge University Press, 2003
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The essays collected in State, Trust and Corporation contain the reflections of England's greatest legal historian on the legal, historical and philosophical origins of the idea of the state. All written in the first years of the twentieth century, Maitland's essays are classics both of historical writing and of political theory. They contain a series of profound insights into the way the character of the state has been shaped by the non-political associations that exist alongside it, and their themes are of continuing relevance today. This is the first new edition of these essays for sixty years, and the first of any kind to contain full translations, glossary and expository introduction. It has been designed to make Maitland's writings fully accessible to the non-specialist, and to make available to anyone interested in the idea of the state some of the most important modern writings in English on that subject.
Table of Contents
- Editors' introduction
- Note on the text
- Bibliographical notes
- Biographical notes
- Glossary of technical terms
- Preface
- The essays: 1. The corporation sole
- 2. The Crown as corporation
- 3. The unincorporate body
- 4. Moral personality and legal personality
- 5. Trust and corporation
- Index.
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