 | Frederic William Maitland - 1901 - 116 páginas
...years of the sixteenth century and of the Tudor age the life of our ancient law was by no means lusty. And now we may ask what opposing force, what conservative...to be plentiful evidence that the learned doctores iuris who counselled the German princes and obtained seats in the courts were cordially detested by... | |
 | Geoffrey Rudolph Elton - 1985 - 140 páginas
...he rejected the sentimentalities which turn up too frequently in songs of praise for the common law: 'National character, the genius of a people, is a...which stands at the beck and call of every historian.' Instead he found his answer in the system which had been built around that law. Served by a regular... | |
 | R. C. van Caenegem - 1988 - 184 páginas
...system, or are we playing with words? 'National character, the genius of a people,' said Maitland, 'is a wonder-working spirit which stands at the beck and call of every historian,'8 and CK Allen has reminded us that 'law is seldom of pure-blooded stock' and 'national'... | |
 | Frederic William Maitland - 1901 - 116 páginas
...years of the sixteenth century and of the Tudor age the life of our ancient law was by no means lusty. And now we may ask what opposing force, what conservative...to be plentiful evidence that the learned doctores iuris who counselled the German princes and obtained seats in the courts were cordially detested by... | |
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In short, I am persuaded that in the middle years of the sixteenth century and of the Tudor age the life of our ancient law was by no means lusty. And now we may ask what opposing force, what conservative principle was there in England ? National character,... 