What do we think is the ‘greatest event in English law’? Something about freedom, fairness, equality? Something especially spectacular or creative? Well, if it’s 1888 and you are F.W. Maitland it is this …

Selden Soc. vol. 2, (liv

Don’t get me wrong, I like a petty assize as much as the next Land Law/Legal History lecturer, but I am not sure I would pick out the introduction of novel disseisin as the single greatest LH event of all time …

(And the dog looks equally unconvinced, to my mind).

GS

1/11/2024