Maitland, and his lifelong correspondence with US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.

They acted as models for future textbooks and helped modernise English legal education.

[10] He was cited in an 1897 slander case involving the London Fencing Club when Sir John Hutton was sued by a French naval officer, Rene Martin Fortris, who accused Hutton of falsely stating that Fortris had been making unwelcome advances towards his daughter for two years.

According to Fortris, this led to Sir Frederick Pollock and John Norbury declining his application for membership of the London Fencing Club.

The jury was unimpressed by Fortris's case and found in favour of Sir John Hutton.