Quote of the day
I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.
Frederic William Maitland
Born: May 28, 1850
Died: December 19, 1906 (aged 56)
Bio: Frederic William Maitland was an English historian and lawyer who is generally regarded as the modern father of English legal history.
Known for:
- Domesday book and beyond (1897)
- The constitutional history of England
- The forms of action at common law
- English Law And the Renaissance (1901)
- State, trust, and corporation