Quote of the day
The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
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








