Maitland: State, Trust and Corporation

by F. W. Maitland , Edited by David Runciman , Magnus Ryan

• ISBN13: 9780521820103
• ISBN10: 0521820103
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-08
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The essays collected in State, Trust and Corporation contain the reflections of England's greatest legal historian on the legal, historical and philosophical origins of the idea of the state. All written in the first years of the twentieth century, Maitland's essays are classics both of historical writing and of political theory. They contain a series of profound insights into the way the character of the state has been shaped by the non-political associations that exist alongside it, and their themes are of continuing relevance today. This is the first new edition of these essays for sixty years, and the first of any kind to contain full translations, glossary and expository introduction. It has been designed to make Maitland's writings fully accessible to the non-specialist, and to make available to anyone interested in the idea of the state some of the most important modern writings in English on that subject.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Editors' introduction	ix
Life and work	ix
Gierke	xi
Corporation sole	xiv
Unincorporate body	xix
State, trust and corporation	xxiv
Significance	xxvi
Note on the text	xxx
Bibliographical notes	xxxii
Maitland's sources and abbreviations	xxxii
The publishing history of the essays	xxxiv
Other works by Maitland	xxxvi
Works about Maitland	xxxvii
Biographical notes	xl
Glossary of technical terms	xlvi
Preface	1	(1)
Extract from Maitland's Introduction to Gierke	1	(6)
The Essays	7	(124)
1. The Corporation Sole	9	(23)
2. The Crown as Corporation	32	(20)
3. The Unincorporate Body	52	(10)
4. Moral Personality and Legal Personality	62	(13)
5. Trust and Corporation	75	(56)
Index	131