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1850–1906 England

Frederic William Maitland (28 May 1850 – 19 December 1906) was an English historian and lawyer who is regarded as the modern father of English legal history.

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Those who took the road to democracy to be the road to freedom mistook temporary means for an ultimate end.

It was a court of politicians enforcing a policy, not a court of judges administering the law.

It is hard to think away out of our heads a history which has long lain in a remote past but which once lay in the future.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Frederic William Maitland (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.