Selected essays on the history of Scots law. / Vol 1, Law, lawyers, and humanism

Selected essays on the history of Scots law.

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Edition Details

Creator or Attribution (Responsibility): John W. Cairns
Language: English
Jurisdiction(s): Scotland
Publication Information: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2015]
Publication Type (Medium): Electronic books, History
Material: Document, Internet resource
Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
Other titles: Essays.
Law, lawyers, and humanism
Series title: Edinburgh studies in law, v. 13.
Permalink: https://books.lawi.org.uk/selected-essays-on-the-history-of-scots-law-vol-1-law-lawyers-and-humanism/ (Stable identifier)

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Print version: (OCoLC)919000723

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1 online resource.

Purpose and Intended Audience

Useful for students learning an area of law, Selected essays on the history of Scots law. / Vol 1, Law, lawyers, and humanism 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: John W. Cairns.
Publication Date: 2015
Country/State: Scotland
Number of Editions: 5 editions
First edition Date: 2014
Last edition Date: 2015
Languages: English
Library of Congress Code: KDC180
Dewey Code: 340.09411
ISBN: 9780748682102 0748682104
OCLC: 919236538

Main Contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Foundation and Continuity; 1. From Claves Curiae to Senators of the College of Justice: Changing Rituals and Symbols in Scottish Courts; 2. English Looters and Scottish Lawyers: the ius commune and the College of Justice; 3. Ius Civile in Scotland ca. 1600; 4. The Law, the Advocates and the Universities in Late Sixteenth-Century Scotland; 5. Scottish Law, Scottish Lawyers and the Status of the Union; 6. Natural Law, National Laws, Parliaments and Multiple Monarchies: 1707 and Beyond; 7. Attitudes to Codification and the Scottish Science of Legislation, 1600-1830; Significance of Dutch Humanism; 8. Importing our Lawyers from Holland: Netherlands’ Influences on Scots Law and Lawyers in the Eighteenth Century; 9. Three Unnoticed Scottish Editions of Pieter Burman’s Antiquitatum Romanarum brevis description; 10. Legal Study in Utrecht in the late 1740s: The Legal Education of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes; Development of the Legal Profession; 11. The Formation of the Scottish Legal Mind in the Eighteenth Century: Themes of Humanism and Enlightenment in the Admission of Advocates; 12. Advocates’ Hats, Roman Law and Admission to the Bar, 1580-1812; 13. Alfenus Varus and the Faculty of Advocates: Roman Visions and the Manners that were Fit for Admission to the Bar in the Eighteenth Century; Blackstone, Feudalism and Institutional Writings; 14. Craig, Cujas, and the Definition of Feudum; Is a Feu a Usufruct?; 15. Blackstone, an English Institutist: Legal Literature and the Rise of the Nation State; 16. Professorial Classification of English Common Law; 17. Blackstone, Kahn Freund, and the Contract of Employment; 18. The Moveable Text of Mackenzie: Bibliographical Problems for the Scottish; Concept of Institutional Writing.

Summary Note

Presents a collection of essays on legal history from the career of John W Cairns. This collection covers the foundation and continuity of Scots Law from 16th and 17th century, Scotland through the 18th century influence of Dutch Humanism into the 19th century and the further development of the Scots legal system and profession.

Selected essays on the history of Scots law. / Vol 1, Law, lawyers, and humanism

Selected essays on the history of Scots law. / Vol 1, Law, lawyers, and humanism