Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
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