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Selected essays on the history of Scots law. Vol 1, Law, lawyers, and humanism /
A collection of the most influential essays on Legal History from the career of John W. Cairns. The first volume of two, this collection of essays on Scots Law represents a selection of the most cited articles published by Professor John W. Cairns over a distinguished career in Legal History. It is...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Edinburgh studies in law ;
v. 13. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 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, c 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 descriptio
- 10 Legal Study in Utrecht in the late 1740s: The 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 Scots 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 Eighteenth-Century 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
- Index