...This book reveals the stories behind some of the most important and memorable cases in Scottish legal history. The cases it covers range from the miscarriage of justice against Oscar Slater to the Lockerbie trial; from a decomposing snail in a bottle of ginger beer to allegations of high jinks...

... the concept of criminal capacity as it is to be applied and emphasises its significance. It places the discussion of the issue of youth offending in the context of legal history, looking at Scottish legal writing dating from the 17^th century onwards. The central theme of the paradox...

... partnerships heritable securities mortgage assignation in security diligence Schemes of Arrangement debenture stock liens charge instruments debenture holders delivery Floating Charge Legal History Companies Statutory Companies ‘The whole method of creating a floating charge,’ said Lord Dunedin...

... securities negative pledges charge instruments third parties ranking agreements registration diligence debenture holders goodwill incorporeal property creation of floating charges registers transfer of floating charges receivership Floating Charge Legal History Law Reform Archival Records 1...

... Committee of Scottish Clearing Bankers law and economics Floating Charge Legal History Law Reform Scots Law Three score years have passed, during which the floater has changed (one hesitates to write ‘developed’). Most of the changes have been in matters of detail, but there have been two major...

... Kelman M Posner R neoliberalism Dalton C Gordon R Trubek D Coase R Legal realism law and economics Harvard Law School legal history American history Duncan Kennedy Roberto Unger Morton Horwitz One’s ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature. Arthur...

... of the movement. Freeman A Kelman M trashing Kennedy D Gordon A L Williams P Tushnet M Central Intelligence Agency Reich C Kalman L Trubek D Gordon R Unger R Law and literature legal history intellectual history CIA Cui bono? Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pro Roscio Amerino...

... Duguit L Grotius H Hegel G W F Hobbes T Kant I Loughlin M Pufendorf S Rubin E Pocock J G A Campos P Schlag P Smith S Berlusconi S Dingpolitik diplomacy Heidegger M Law and society Legal history Political history Actor-network theory Gaia (ecology) Bruno Latour Martin Heidegger...

... legal rules legal interpretation judges legal realism tramping vagrancy Dómakapítuli administrative literacy literacy Medieval Iceland Legal History Distributed Cognition Jurisprudence Grágás Law and Language Legal Sociology Literacy Book History This chapter examines the medieval...

... Salojärvi, A Counter-Culture of Law: Jurisprudential Change and the Intellectual Origins of the Critical Legal Studies Movement (2019) 59(4) American Journal of Legal History 409. 5 Cornel West, Reassessing the Critical Legal Studies Movement (1988) 34 Loyola Law Review 265, 267. reimagining critical...

... J canon law Donahue C Stein P Wieacker F Casus Codicis of Wilhelmus de Cabriano Wilhelmus de Cabriano Bartolus de Saxoferrato ius commune feudorum pignus Kantorowicz H Voet J ius commune narrative universal common law legal history European law The jurist Paul wrote: “The law may...

... British Legal History Conference 1977 Norwegian conference Reformation Reid Lord President R Boswell James Cockburn Lord Craig Edinburgh University Holdsworth Sir W ius commune jurists Napoleonic wars Smith T B Common Law cuckoo Koschaker P land law Cole G D H David H Radzinowicz Stephen...

...This chapter examines the approach taken to children who offend by three of the most influential jurists in Scots legal history – Sir George MacKenzie of Rosehaugh; Baron David Hume and Sir Archibald Alison. They are selected for the quality and depth of their work on the relationship between...

... approach. actio lex tituli picti on Roman amphorae customs duties Historiography of Roman Law Legal history Roman commercial law It is a curious fact that the two seminal studies of the last century to work at the interface between Roman law and maritime commerce were both written by scholars based...

...This is the second volume in a collection of the most influential essays on legal history from the career of Professor John W. Cairns. The book deals with broad themes in legal history, such as the development of Scots law through the major legal thinkers of the Enlightenment, essays on Roman law...

...Legal humanism has become deeply entrenched in most modern works on European legal history from the seventeenth century onwards and has been accepted with such blind faith by many modern scholars that few have challenged it. The consequence is that scholars who have accepted the traditional view...

...Because of the universal nature of legal problems connected with shipwreck, the solutions proposed in classical Antiquity had a tremendous impact on the subsequent legal history of maritime law, to the effect that many commentators have discussed the various, though relatively few, Greek and Latin...

... 168978, 79 xiv continuity, influences and integration in scottish legal history RPS 1690/4/33 (Confession of Faith Act 1690237 RPS 1690/4/111 (Child Murder Act 1690368 RPS 1695/5/156 (Runrig Lands Act 1695 (c 36138 RPS 1695/5/204 (Division of Commonties Act 1695 (c 69138 RPS 1696/9/56 (Deathbed Act...

... areas of private law in Scotland and Louisiana. In thirteen chapters, written by scholars on both sides of the Atlantic, it explores not only legal rules but also the reasons for the rules, discussing legal history, social and cultural factors, and the law in practice, in order to account for patterns...