| Frederick Pollock - 1898 - 452 sivua
...PROLOGUE TO A HISTORY OF ENGLISH LAW. SUCH is the unity of all history that any one who endeavours to tell a piece of it must feel that his first sentence...Greek words in it : words such as bishop, priest, and deacon l. If we would search out the origins of Roman law, we must study Babylon : this at least was... | |
| Charles Warren - 1908 - 616 sivua
...disconnected and isolated. As Maitland says, "Such is the unity of all history that anyone who endeavors to tell a piece of it must feel that his first sentence tears a seamless web — a statute of limitations must be set; but it must be arbitrary. The web must be rent; but as we... | |
| Frederick Pollock - 1914 - 554 sivua
...that begin? 'Such is the unity of all history ', we are reminded, ' that any one who endeavours to tell a piece of it must feel that his first sentence tears a seamless web.' 2 This drawback applies to a history of the sources of the law as much as to the history of the law... | |
| 1922 - 842 sivua
...of the art of letters — said: — "Such is the unity of all history that any one who endeavours to tell a piece of it must feel that his first sentence tears a seamless web."1 Mr. Delisle Burns supports the view with great lucidity in a recent work : — "The past is... | |
| Peter Joseph Hamilton - 1922 - 250 sivua
...Libr. 3 6105 044 4O2 704 INTRODUCTION Such is the unity of all history that any one who endeavors to tell a piece of it must feel that his first sentence tears a seamless web.—Maitland. Authorities.—Edward Jenks, Law and Pol:tics in the Middle Ages. Short History of... | |
| 1928 - 1478 sivua
...juvenile and family problems; (3) the " " Such I: the unity of all history that anyone who endeavors to tell a piece of It must feel that his first sentence tears a seamless web." Pollock, Frederick, and Frederick William Maitland: The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward... | |
| 1920 - 700 sivua
...of the Roman civilization which began to operate at a very early date upon the barbarian customs.31 "The oldest utterance of English law that has come down to us has Greek words in it; words such as b: nop, priest, and deacon."32 The statement of earlier writers that wills of land as well as of movables... | |
| Tambyah Nadaraja - 1972 - 370 sivua
...death in November 1962. INTRODUCTION "Such is the unity of all history that anyone who endeavours to tell a piece of it must feel that his first sentence tears a seamless web ... A statute of limitations must be set; but it must be arbitrary. The web must be rent; but as we... | |
| Harold J. Berman - 2009 - 674 sivua
...and Maitland's History of English Law, "Such is the unity of all history that anyone who endeavors to tell a piece of it must feel that his first sentence...Greek words in it; words such as bishop, priest, and deacon. If we search out the origins of Roman law we must study Babylon . . . A statute of limitations... | |
| Dieter Giesen - 1988 - 992 sivua
...medical negligence, cf § 1811, infra. 3 "Such is the unity of all history that any one who endeavours to tell a piece of it must feel that his first sentence tears a seamless web. " — The famous words can be found in Sir Frederick Pollock & Frederic William Maitland's History of English... | |
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