Download or read book Legal Practice in Eighteenth Century Scotland written by John Finlay and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first monograph to analyse the workings of Scotland’s legal profession in its early modern European context. It is a comprehensive survey of lawyers working in the local and central courts; investigating how they interacted with their clients and with each other, the legal principles governing ethical practice, and how they fulfilled a social role through providing free services to the poor and also services to town councils and other corporations. Based heavily on a wide range of archival sources, and reflecting the contemporary importance of local societies of lawyers, John Finlay offers a groundbreaking yet accessible study of the eighteenth-century legal profession which adds a new dimension to our knowledge of Enlightenment Scotland.
Download or read book A Legal History of Scotland The eighteenth century written by David M. Walker and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Perspectives in Scottish Legal History written by A. K. R Kiralfy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1984. Part of The Journal of Legal History which publishes articles and book reviews on the history of the law in the British Isles, and also contributes in English on significant developments in the countries of the Commonwealth and the U.S.A. This edition includes articles on sources of literature, institutional writings, dissasine and mortancester in Scots Law, and the 1707 Union.
Download or read book A Legal History of Scotland The eighteenth century written by David Maxwell Walker and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Law Lawyers and Humanism written by John W Cairns and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together a selection of the most cited articles published by Professor John W. Cairns. Essays range from Scots Law from 16th and 17th century Scotland, through to the 18th century influence of Dutch Humanism into the 19th century, a
Download or read book John Law written by James Buchan and published by Quercus Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the summit of his power, John Law was the most famous man in Europe. Born in Scotland in 1671, he was convicted of murder in London and, after his escape from prison, fled Scotland for the mainland when Union with England brought with it a warrant for his arrest. On the continent he lurched from one money-making scheme to the next - selling insurance against losing lottery tickets in Holland, advising the Duke of Savoy - amassing a fortune of some £80,000. But for his next trick he had grander ambitions. When Louis XIV died, leaving a thoroughly bankrupt France to his five-year-old heir, Law gained the ear of the Regent, Philippe D'Orleans. In the years that followed, Law's financial wizardry transformed the fortunes of France, enriching speculators and investors across the continent, and he was made Controller-General of Finances, effectively becoming the French Prime Minister. But the fall from grace that was to follow was every bit as spectacular as his meteoric rise. John Law, by a biographer of Adam Smith and the author of Frozen Desire and Capital of the Mind, dramatises the life of one of the most inventive financiers in history, a man who was born before his time and in whose day the word millionaire came to be coined.
Download or read book Scottish Legal History written by Andrew Robert Craig Simpson and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first textbook on Scottish legal history from the genesis of Scots law to the Union, written from a legal perspective From the roots of a law that applied to all subjects of the Scottish King to the Union with England, this new legal history textbook explores the genesis, evolution and enduring influence of early Scots law. Discover how and why Scots law come into being, how was it used in dispute resolution during the medieval and early modern periods and how its authority developed over the centuries.
Download or read book A History of Private Law in Scotland written by Kenneth Reid and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scotland has a special claim for the attention of comparative lawyers, of legal historians and of those who seek to identify a common core in European private law or to develop a new jus commune. For Scotland stands at the intersection of the two great traditions of European law - of the law of Rome, received and developed in Continental Europe and of the law which originated in England but was exported throughout the British Empire. In Scotland, uniquely in Europe, there is to be found a fusion of the civil law and the common law. Law in Scotland has a long history, uninterrupted either by revolution or by codification. It is rich in source material, both printed and archival. Yet hitherto the history of legal doctrine has been relatively neglected. This work is a detailed and systematic study in the field of private law. It takes key topics from the law of obligations and the law of property and traces their development from earliest times to the present day. A picture emerges of the slow but profound reception of civil law, beginning in the medieval period and continuing until the eighteenth century and of the influential role of Canon law.
Download or read book Scottish Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century Volume I written by Aaron Garrett and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Scottish Philosophy is a series of collaborative studies by expert authors, each volume being devoted to a specific period. Together they provide a comprehensive account of the Scottish philosophical tradition, from the centuries that laid the foundation of the remarkable burst of intellectual fertility known as the Scottish Enlightenment, through the Victorian age and beyond, when it continued to exercise powerful intellectual influence at home and abroad. The books aim to be historically informative, while at the same time serving to renew philosophical interest in the problems with which the Scottish philosophers grappled, and in the solutions they proposed. This new history of Scottish philosophy will include two volumes that focus on the Scottish Enlightenment. In this volume a team of leading experts explore the ideas, intellectual context, and influence of Hutcheson, Hume, Smith, Reid, and many other thinkers, frame old issues in fresh ways, and introduce new topics and questions into debates about the philosophy of this remarkable period. The contributors explore the distinctively Scottish context of this philosophical flourishing, and juxtapose the work of canonical philosophers with contemporaries now very seldom read. The outcome is a broadening-out, and a filling-in of the detail, of the picture of the philosophical scene of Scotland in the eighteenth century. General Editor: Gordon Graham, Princeton Theological Seminary
Download or read book Community of the College of Justice written by John Finlay and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on Court of Session records uncovered by John Finlay, this study investigates the important role of College members in the cultural and economic flowering of Scotland, and argues that a single Law institution had a marked influence on the Scottish
Download or read book Scottish Men of Letters in the Eighteenth Century written by Henry Grey Graham and published by London, Black. This book was released on 1901 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Institutions of the Law of Scotland by Sir George MacKenzie the Fourth Edition Revised Corrected and Augmented with an Appendix of Notes written by GEORGE. MACKENZIE and published by Gale Ecco, Print Editions. This book was released on 2018-04-23 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Bodleian Library (Oxford) N007707 Edited by William Forbes. Edinburgh: printed by James Watson, for John Vallange, 1706. [8],253, [3]p.; 8°
Download or read book The Awakening of Scotland written by William Law Mathieson and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eighteenth Century Scotland written by Thomas Martin Devine and published by John Donald. This book was released on 1999 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a two-year seminar series at the Research Centre in Scottish History at the University of Strathclyde, this text aims to illuminate the part played by 18th century history in the creation of modern Scotland. It contains original research and historiographical overviews and commentaries.
Download or read book Privilege and Property written by Ronan Deazley and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can and can't be copied is a matter of law, but also of aesthetics, culture, and economics. The act of copying, and the creation and transaction of rights relating to it, evokes fundamental notions of communication and censorship, of authorship and ownership - of privilege and property. This volume conceives a new history of copyright law that has its roots in a wide range of norms and practices. The essays reach back to the very material world of craftsmanship and mechanical inventions of Renaissance Italy where, in 1469, the German master printer Johannes of Speyer obtained a five-year exclusive privilege to print in Venice and its dominions. Along the intellectual journey that follows, we encounter John Milton who, in his 1644 Areopagitica speech 'For the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing', accuses the English parliament of having been deceived by the 'fraud of some old patentees and monopolizers in the trade of bookselling' (i.e. the London Stationers' Company). Later revisionary essays investigate the regulation of the printing press in the North American colonies as a provincial and somewhat crude version of European precedents, and how, in the revolutionary France of 1789, the subtle balance that the royal decrees had established between the interests of the author, the bookseller, and the public, was shattered by the abolition of the privilege system. Contributions also address the specific evolution of rights associated with the visual and performing arts. These essays provide essential reading for anybody interested in copyright, intellectual history and current public policy choices in intellectual property. The volume is a companion to the digital archive Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC): www.copyrighthistory.org.
Download or read book Literary Representations of Eighteenth Century Scots Law written by Andrew Melrose and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scotland in the Age of Improvement written by Nicholas T. Phillipson and published by Edinburgh : University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
