Frederick William Maitland, Downing Professor of the Laws of England / A Biographical Sketch

by H. A. L. Fisher

FOOTNOTES:

[25] Middle Ages. In 1900 Maitland published a translation of part of Otto Gierke's (O.G.) Das deutsche Genossenschaftrecht under the title Political Theories of the Middle Ages.

[26] The B. G. B. is the Bürgerliche Gesetzbuch. Maitland was reading Mugdan's Die Gesammten Materialien zum Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuch. The Y. B. B. are the Year-books.

[27] The Cambridge Modern History.

[28] Otto Gierke's monograph on Johannes Althusius, published 1880.

[29] To the Cambridge Modern History.

[30] Maitland was invited to succeed Lord Acton in the Chair of Modern History at Cambridge.

[31] Mire V^d! No verá cada día el condicional de subjunctivo.

[32] The Duke of Devonshire, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, had criticised Mr Joseph Chamberlain's fiscal proposals.