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SUCH is the unity of all history that any one who endeavours to tell a piece of it must feel that his first sentence tears a seamless web. The oldest utterance of English law that has come down to us has Greek words in it: words such as bishop, priest, and deacon.[3] If we would search out the origins of Roman law, we must study Babylon: this at least was the opinion of the great Romanist of our own day.[4] A statute of limitations must be set; but it must be arbitrary. The web must be rent; but, as we rend it, we may watch
- ↑ This essay was first published in the Law Quarterly Review, 1898, vol. XIV, pp. 13-33; and afterwards was prefixed to the second edition of the "History of English Law," 1899 (Cambridge, University Press; Boston, Little, Brown & Co.).
- ↑ 1850-1906; M. A., Trinity College (Cambridge); Barrister of Lincoln's Inn; Reader of English Law at Cambridge, 1888; Downing Professor of the Laws of England at Cambridge, 1888-1906; Bencher of Lincoln's Inn ; LL. D., D. C. L., Oxford, Glasgow, Cracow.
Other Publications: Gloucester Pleas, 1884; Justice and Police, 1885; Bracton's Note-Book, 1887; History of English Law before the Time of Edward I (with Sir F. Pollock), 1895; Domesday Book and Beyond, 1897; Township and Borough, 1898; Canon Law in England, 1898; Introduction to Gierke's Political Theories of the Middle Ages, 1900; English Law and the Renaissance, 1901; prefaces to several volumes of the Selden Society's publications; editor of the Year-Books of Edward II (Selden Society, 1904-6). The miscellaneous essays and minor books of Professor Maitland are now being edited for publication in collected form by the University Press, Camoridge (Eng.).
- ↑ Æthelb. 1.
- ↑ Ihering, Vorgeschichte der Indoeuropäer[1]; see especially the editor's preface.
