Scottish Legal History : : Volume 1: 1000-1707 / / Andrew R. C. Simpson, Adelyn L. M. Wilson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Simpson, Andrew R. C.,; Wilson, Adelyn L. M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2017
• Leto izdaje: 2022
• Jezik: English
• Fizični opis: 1 online resource (408 p.)

The first textbook on Scottish legal history from the genesis of Scots law to the Union, written from a legal perspectiveFrom the roots of a law that applied to all subjects of the Scottish King to the 1707 Union with England, this new legal history textbook explores the genesis, evolution and endur...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• PART ONE: THE ORIGINS OF THE SCOTTISH COMMON LAW TO c. 1230
• Chapter 1 From Legal Diversity to Some Legal Commonality
• PART TWO: THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE COMMON LAW, c. 1230–c. 1450
• Chapter 2 The Brieves (Part One)
• Chapter 3 The Brieves (Part Two)
• Chapter 4 ‘Crimes’
• Chapter 5 Law and Order in the Highlands and Islands
• PART THREE: THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE SCOTTISH COMMON LAW AND THE SESSION, c. 1450–c. 1580
• Chapter 6 The Jurisdiction of the Session
• Chapter 7 Legal Learning and Legal Authority in the College of Justice
• Chapter 8 Reformation, Revolution and the Legal System
• Chapter 9 The Learned Authority of Scots Law
• Chapter 10 Legal Learning and the Power of Parliament
• PART FOUR: REGAL UNION WITH ENGLAND, c. 1580–1707
• Chapter 11 Authority and Government in the Scottish Reign of James VI
• Chapter 12 Authority and Government after 1603
• Chapter 13 Interregnum or Republic in the 1650s
• Chapter 14 Legal Literature
• Chapter 15 Legal Authority and the Learned Laws
• Chapter 16 Legal Authority of Scottish Sources
• Chapter 17 Advocates in the Court of Session and Inferior Jurisdictions in Aberdeen
• Chapter 18 Advocates, Witches and Judicial Torture
• Chapter 19 Revolution and Union
• Index