Roman law, Scots law and legal history : selected essays

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Edition Details

Creator or Attribution (Responsibility): William M. Gordon
Language: English
Jurisdiction(s): England
Publication Information: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2007
Publication Type (Medium): Aufsatzsammlung, History
Material: Internet resource
Type: Book, Internet Resource
Series title: Edinburgh studies in law, v. 4.
Permalink: https://books.lawi.org.uk/roman-law-scots-law-and-legal-history-selected-essays/ (Stable identifier)

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XI, 398 pages ; 25 cm.

Purpose and Intended Audience

Useful for students learning an area of law, Roman law, Scots law and legal history : selected essays is also useful for lawyers seeking to apply the law to issues arising in practice.

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Bibliographic information

Publisher: University Press
Responsable Person: William M. Gordon.
Publication Date: 2007
Location: Edinburgh
Country/State: England
Number of Editions: 7 editions
First edition Date: 2007
Last edition Date: 2013
General Notes: Selection of articles and essays published by the author throughout his career in legal academics.
Languages: English
Library of Congress Code: KDC315
Dewey Code: 349.411
ISBN: 9780748625161 074862516X
OCLC: 154711300

Main Contents

ROMAN LAW
Constitutum Possessorium
Acquisition of ownership by traditio and acquisition of possession
Dating the Lex Aquilia
The Actio de Posito reconsidered
Agency and Roman law
Observations on Depositum Irregulare
The importance of the iusta causa of traditio
ROMAN LAW AND SCOTS LAW
Roman and Scots law: the Conditiones si sine Liberis Decesserit
The interpretation of C 8.55.8
Cinus and Pierre de Belleperche
Roman law in a nineteenth-century Scottish case: Gowans v Christie
Servitudes. Scots law and Roman law
Roman quasi-delicts and Scots law
Risk in sale: from Roman to Scots law
SCOTTISH LEGAL HISTORY
The right of women to graduate in medicine: Scottish judicial attitudes in the nineteenth Century
Property and succession rights
George Joseph Bell-Law Commissioner
Variation and discharge of land obligations
Stair, Grotius and the sources of Stair s Institutions
The acts of the Scottish Lords of Council in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries: records and reports
Balfour’s Registrum
ROMAN LAW INFLUENCE
Scotland and France. the legal connection
A comparison of the influence of Roman law in England and Scotland
The civil law in Scotland
GENERAL INTEREST
Scotland as a mixed jurisdiction
European legal history and the Europeanisation of law
Legal tradition, with particular reference to Roman law.

Roman law, Scots law and legal history : selected essays

Roman law, Scots law and legal history : selected essays