1:08 PM :: Stephen (contact)

Thesis Revision Quote of the Day: From the great legal historian Frederic William Maitland:

Besides, it is common knowledge that those who perjure themselves are often struck dead, or reduced to the stature of dwarfs, or find that they cannot remove their hands from the relics they have profaned.

Maitland, Outlines of English Legal History, 560-1600, Social England (H.D. Traill ed., London, Cassel & Co. 1893), reprinted in 2 Collected Papers of Frederic William Maitland 417, 447 (H. A. L. Fisher ed., 1911).