Scottish Legal History

Volume 1: 1000-1707

Andrew R. C. Simpson, Adelyn L M Wilson

• Editore: Edinburgh University Press
• Anno: 2017
• ISBN:
  9780748697427
• Argomento: Storia
• Categoria: Storia britannica

Discover how Scots law come into being, its use in dispute resolution in the medieval and early modern periods and how its authority developed over the centuries to the 1707 Union with England.

Indice dei contenuti

• Scottish Legal History
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• PART ONE The Origins of the Scottish Common Law to c. 1230
• 1 From Legal Diversity to Some Legal Commonality
• PART TWO The Consolidation of the Scottish Common Law, c. 1230-c. 1450
• 2 The Brieves (Part One)
• 3 The Brieves (Part Two)
• 4 ‘Crimes’
• 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
• 6 The Jurisdiction of the Session
• 7 legal learning and authority in the college of justice Legal Learning and Legal Authority in the College of Jurisdiction
• 8 Reformation, Revolution and the Legal System
• 9 The Learned Authority of Scots Law
• 10 Legal Learning and the Power of Parliament
• Part Four Regal Union with England, c. 1580-1707
• 11 Authority and Government in the Scottish Reign of James VI
• 12 Authority and Government after 1603
• 13 Interregnum or Republic in the 1650s
• 14 Legal Literature
• 15 Legal Authority and the Learned Laws
• 16 Legal Authority of Scottish Sources
• 17 Advocates in the Court of Session and Inferior Jurisdictions in Aberdeen
• 18 Advocates, Witches and Judicial Torture
• 19 Revolution and Union
• Index