Lectures on the expansion of the common law, ca. 1900.

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Lectures on the expansion of the common law, ca. 1900.

Maitland's unpublished (?) manuscript, bound up from loose sheets written on one side only, partly by an amanuensis. Presented to the Harvard Law School by the master and fellows of Downing College in the University of Cambridge, on the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its foundation, September, 1967.

[169] leaves ; 26 cm.

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Maitland, Frederic William, 1850-1906

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Frederic William Maitland (1850-1906), son of John Gorham Maitland, was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took the moral sciences tripos (B.A., 1873; M.A. 1876). He was called to the bar in 1876, and thereafter became reader in English law at Cambridge in 1884, and Downing professor, 1888-1906. He was the founder of the Selden Society, which sought to encourage the study of the history of English law, and served as its literary director in 1895. He became Ford's lecturer ...