"A Prologue to a History of English Law," Law Quarterly Review (Jan 1898) - Maitland, F. W. | WIST Quotations
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. Prologue to the 2nd ed. of his and Pollock's History of English Law (1898). Frequently mis-paraphrased, "The law is a seamless web."
