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Author MacQueen, Hector L.

Title Continuity, Influences and Integration in Scottish Legal History : Select Essays of David Sellar.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022.

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Description 1 online resource (410 pages)
Series Edinburgh Studies in Law
Edinburgh studies in law.
Summary Brings together 15 principal essays by David Sellar (1941-2019), reflecting his pioneering contribution to Scottish legal history, covering the topics of Celtic law and institutions, the influence of Canon and English law across a wide range of legal subjects (including family law, succession, criminal law, evidence) and customary law.
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Statutes -- Table of Cases -- Introduction: David Sellar, Legal Historian -- 1 The Continuity of Scottish Legal History: An Overview -- 2 Celtic Law and Scots Law: Survival and Integration -- 3 Marriage, Divorce and Concubinage in Gaelic Scotland -- 4 The Lyon and the Seanchaidh -- 5 Birlaw Courts and Birleymen -- 6 English Law as a Source of Stair's Institutions -- 7 The Resilience of the Scottish Common Law -- 8 Scots Law: Mixed from the Very Beginning? A Tale of Two Receptions -- 9 Marriage by Cohabitation with Habit and Repute: Review And Requiem? -- 10 Marriage, Divorce and the Forbidden Degrees: Canon Law and Scots Law -- 11 Forethocht Felony, Malice Aforethought and the Classification of Homicide -- 12 Juridical Acts Made in Contemplation of Death -- 13 Succession Law -- 14 Courtesy, Battle, and the Brieve of Right, 1368 -- 15 Promise -- 16 Presumptions -- Index
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Subject Law -- Scotland -- History.
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General.
Law
Scotland
Genre/Form History
Other Form: Print version: MacQueen, Hector L. Continuity, Influences and Integration in Scottish Legal History. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2022 9781474488761
ISBN 9781474488785 (electronic book)
1474488781 (electronic book)