Frederic William Maitland (May 28, 1850 - December 19, 1906) was an English jurist and historian. May 28 is the 148th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (149th in leap years). ... 1850 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... December 19 is the 353rd day of the year (354th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1906 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Wikimedia Commons has media related to: England Inter. ... JURIST is an online legal news and research service hosted by the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, edited by Professor Bernard Hibbitts and a staff of more than 20 law students. ... A historian is a person who studies history. ...

He was the son of John Gorham Maitland, and was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, being bracketed at the head of the moral sciences tripos of 1872, and winning a Whewell scholarship for international law. The Kings College of Our Lady of Eton beside Windsor, commonly known as Eton College or just Eton, is a public school (that is, an independent, fee-charging secondary school) for boys. ... Full name The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity Motto Virtus vera nobilitas Virtue is true Nobility Named after The Holy Trinity Previous names Kings Hall and Michaelhouse (until merged in 1546) Established 1546 Sister College Christ Church Master Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow Location Trinity Street... William Whewell William Whewell (May 24, 1794 – March 6, 1866) was an Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian and historian of science. ...

He was called to the bar (Lincoln's Inn) in 1876, and became a competent equity lawyer and conveyancer, but finally devoted himself to comparative jurisprudence and especially the history of English law. In 1884 he was appointed reader in English law at Cambridge, and in 1888 became Downing professor of the laws of England. Though he suffered poor health, his intellectual grasp and wide knowledge and research gradually made him famous as a jurist and historian. Part of Lincolns Inn drawn by Thomas Shepherd c. ... This article is about concept of equity in Anglo-American jurisprudence. ... Jurisprudence is the scientific study of law through a philosophical lens. ... Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet (c. ...

The History Faculty Library at Oxford University contains the Maitland Room named after him.

He edited numerous volumes for the Selden Society, including Select Pleas for the Crown, 1200-1225, Select Pleas in Manorial Courts and The Court Baron; and among his principal works were:

• Gloucester Pleas (1884)
• Justice and Police (1885)
• Bracton's Note-Book (1887)
• History of English Law (with Sir F Pollock, 1895; new ed. 1898; see also his article "English Law" in the Encyclopædia Britannica)
• Domesday Book and Beyond (1897)
• Township and Borough (1898)
• Canon Law in England (1898)
• English Law and the Renaissance (1901)
• the Life of Leslie Stephen (1906).

He also made important contributions to the Cambridge Modern History, the English Historical Review, the Law Quarterly Review, Harvard Law Review and other publications. Sir Frederick Pollock (born London, December 10, 1845; died London, January 18, 1937) was an English jurist best known for his History of English Law before Edward I, written with F.W. Maitland, and his lifelong correspondence with Oliver Wendell Holmes. ... 1913 advertisement for the 11th edition, with the slogan When in doubt - look it up in the Encyclopædia Britannica The Encyclopædia Britannica (properly spelt with æ, the ae-ligature) is the oldest English-language general encyclopedia, first published in 1768-1771 as From the late 18th century to...

His written style was lively, and as a historian he used original sources; he was no pedant. His death at Gran Canaria deprived English law and letters of an outstanding representative. Gran Canaria, rarely Grand Canary (archaic), is the second largest island of the Canary Islands, an archipelago located in the Atlantic Ocean 210 km from the northwest coast of Africa and belonging to Spain. ...

See P Vinogradoff's article on Maitland in the English Historical Review (1907); Sir F Pollock's in the Quarterly Review (1907); GT Lapsley's in The Green Bag (Boston, Mass., 1907); AL Smith, F. W. Maitland (1908); HAL Fisher, F. W. Maitland (1910). Paul Vinogradoff, Russian name Pavel Gavrilovich Vinogradov (November 30, 1854 - December 19, 1925), Anglo-Russian jurist, was born at Kostroma in Russia. ...

Reference

• This entry incorporates public domain text originally from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.