A history of private law in Scotland / edited by Kenneth Reid and Reinhard Zimmermann.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000.

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Property -- Scotland.

Obligations (Law) -- Scotland.

Civil law -- Scotland -- History.

Civil law -- Scotland -- History.

Vol 1. Introduction and property

Chronology of Scottish legal history

Table of kings and queens

A note on law reporting

1. The development of legal doctrine in a mixed system

2. Historical introduction

3. Property law : sources and doctrines

4. The Romanization of property law

5. Accession by building

6. Transfer of ownership

7. Servitudes

8. Rights in security over moveables

9. Leases: four historical portraits

10. Assignation

11. Water law regimes

12. Trusts

Vol 2. Obligations:

1. Formation of contract

2. Interpretation

3. Error

4. Force and fear

5. Pacta illicita

6. Judicial control of unfair contract terms

7. Breach of contract

8. Specific implement

9. Third party rights in contract: just quaesitum tertio

10. Promise

11. Contractual restrictive covenants

12. Sale

13. Insurance

14. Unjustified enrichment

15. The structure of the law of delict in historical perspective

16. The intentional delicts

17. Negligence

18. Strict liability

19. Vicarious liability

20. Liability among neighbours

21. Defamation.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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2 volumes ; 25 cm