Note 289 — Chapter XV · PERSONS.
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The leading advocate of this realistic theory is Gierke (Die Genossenschaftstheorie, 1887. Deutsches Privatrecht, 1895). See also Dernburg, Pandekten, I. sect. 59, and Mestre, Les Personnes Morales, 1899. In England it has received sympathetic exposition, if not express support, from Maitland in the Introduction to his translation of part of Gierke’s Genossenschaftsrecht (Political Theories of the Middle Ages, 1900). See also, to the same effect, Pollock, Jurisprudence, p. 113, and L. Q. R. vol. 27, p. 219; Brown, Austinian Theory of Law, Excursus A; 22 L. Q. R. 178, The Legal Personality of a Foreign Corporation, by E. H. Young. Savigny and Windscheid are representative adherents of the older doctrine. For further discussions of this question see Harvard Law Review, vol. xxiv. pp. 253, 347 (Corporate Personality, by A. W. Machen); Law Quarterly Review, vol. xxvii. p. 90 (Legal Personality, by Prof. W. M. Geldart); Gray’s Nature and Sources of the Law, ch. 2; Saleilles, De la personnalité juridique.