Selected essays on the history of Scots law : volume 1 : law, lawyers, and humanism / John W. Cairns ; edited by Elspeth Reid.

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2015.

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Law -- Scotland -- History.

Lawyers -- Scotland -- History.

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, natural 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 the 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

14 Craig, Cujas, and the definition of feudum: is a feu a unsufruct?

15 Blackstone, an English institutist: legal literature and the rise of the nation state

16 Eighteenth-century professional classification of English common law

17 Blackstone, Kahn-Freund, and the contract of employment

18 The movable test of Mackenzie: bibliographic problems for the Scottish concept of institutional writing.

Includes index.

Law, lawyers, and humanism

9780748682096

xxv, 532 p. ; 24cm