The collected papers of Frederic William Maitland, Downing professor of the laws of England

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The collected papers of Frederic William Maitland, Downing professor of the laws of England

edited H.A.L. Fisher

Cambridge University Press, 2013

  • v. 1 : pbk
  • v. 2 : pbk
  • v. 3 : pbk

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Reprint. Originally published in 1911

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

v. 2 : pbk ISBN 9781107631618

Description

Frederic William Maitland (1850-1906) was a pioneering English legal historian. Originally published in 1911, this book forms one of three volumes of Maitland's collected papers. Taken together the texts cover a broad range of areas, with some philosophical and biographical subject matter, but for the most part they relate to the spheres of legal and social history. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in legal history and Maitland's contribution to it.

Table of Contents

  • 1. The materials for English legal history
  • 2. Possession for year and day
  • 3. The introduction of English law into Ireland
  • 4. The surnames of English villages
  • 5. Northumbrian tenures
  • 6. The history of the register of original writs
  • 7. Remainders after conditional fees
  • 8. The 'praerogativa regis'
  • 9. A conveyancer in the thirteenth century
  • 10. A new point on villein tenure
  • 11. Frankalmoign in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
  • 12. Review of 'The Gild Merchant'
  • 13. Henry II and the criminous clerks
  • 14. Tenures in Rousillon and Namur
  • 15. Glanvill revised
  • 16. The peace of God and the land-peace
  • 17. History from the charter roll
  • 18. The survival of archaic communities
  • 19. The history of a Cambridgeshire manor
  • 20. The origin of uses
  • 21. Outlines of English legal history, 560-1600.
Volume

v. 1 : pbk ISBN 9781107642942

Description

Frederic William Maitland (1850-1906) was a pioneering English legal historian. Originally published in 1911, this book forms one of three volumes of Maitland's collected papers. Taken together the texts cover a broad range of areas, with some philosophical and biographical subject matter, but for the most part they relate to the spheres of legal and social history. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in legal history and Maitland's contribution to it.

Table of Contents

  • 1. A historical sketch of liberty and equality
  • 2. The law of real property
  • 3. The laws of Wales. The kindred and the blood feud
  • 4. The criminal liability of the hundred
  • 5. Mr Herbert Spencer's theory of society
  • 6. The early history of malice aforethought
  • 7. The seisin of chattels
  • 8. The mystery of seisin
  • 9. The deacon and the Jewess
  • or, apostasy at common law
  • 10. The beatitude of seisin
  • 11. The suitors of the country court
  • 12. The shallows and silences of real life
  • 13. Why the history of English law is not written.
Volume

v. 3 : pbk ISBN 9781107645066

Description

Frederic William Maitland (1850-1906) was a pioneering English legal historian. Originally published in 1911, this book forms one of three volumes of Maitland's collected papers. Taken together the texts cover a broad range of areas, with some philosophical and biographical subject matter, but for the most part they relate to the spheres of legal and social history. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in legal history and Maitland's contribution to it.

Table of Contents

  • 1. The tribal system in Wales
  • 2. The murder of Henry Clement
  • 3. Two chartularies of the priory of St Peter at Bath
  • 4. The history of marriage, Jewish and Christian
  • 5. The origin of the borough
  • 6. A song on the death of Simon de Montfort
  • 7. Wyclif on English and Roman law
  • 8.'Execrabilis' in the common pleas
  • 9. Canon law
  • 10. Records of the honourable society of Lincoln's Inn
  • 11. Magistri vacarii summa de matrimonio
  • 12. Landholding in mediaeval towns
  • 13. An unpublished 'revocatio' of Henry II
  • 14. Canon MacColl's new convocation
  • 15. Canon law in England
  • 16. Elizabethan gleanings
  • 17. The corporation sole
  • 18. The crown as corporation
  • 19. The unincorporate body
  • 20. The body politic
  • 21. Moral personality and legal personality
  • 22. Trust and corporation
  • 23. The teaching of history
  • 24. Law at the universities
  • 25. A survey of the century
  • 26. Lincolnshire court rolls and Yorkshire inquisitions
  • 27. The laws of the Anglo-Saxons
  • 28. The making of the German civil code
  • 29. State trials of the reign of Edward I
  • 30. William Stubbs, Bishop of Oxford
  • 31. Lord Acton
  • 32. Sir Leslie Stephen
  • 33. Henry Sidgwick
  • 34. Mary Bateson
  • Index.

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