Title The community of the College of Justice : Edinburgh and the Court of Session, 1687-1808 / John Finlay.

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Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2012.

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Description	1 online resource (viii, 295 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Contents	Acknowledgements; abbreviations and references; 1 introduction; 2 the college and the urban community; 3 the college and urban administration; 4 the lords of session; 5 advocates; 6 writers to the signet; 7 the working chambers of the college; 8 subordinate and minor office-holders in the college; 9 conclusion; appendix 1; appendix 2; appendix 3; bibliography; index of subjects; index of persons; index of judicial titles.
Summary	A unique institution in a unique jurisdiction: an institutional history of Scotland's eighteenth-century legal community. How important can a court and its members be in influencing the development of a country? In Scotland's case, the answer is surprising. The remarkable metamorphosis of eighteenth-century Edinburgh, from crisis conditions in the 1690s through the Union to the intellectual heights of Enlightenment and the development of the spectacular New Town, owed a great deal to those who spent their professional lives working in the Court of Session as members of the unique institution kn.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Subject	Scotland. Court of Session -- History.
	Scotland. Court of Session.
	History.
	Scotland. Court of Session.
	Justice, Administration of -- Scotland -- History.
	Justice, Administration of.
	Scotland.
	Civil procedure -- Scotland -- History.
	Civil procedure.
	Edinburgh (Scotland) -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.
	Edinburgh (Scotland) -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
	Edinburgh (Scotland) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Chronological Term	1600-1899
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Finlay, John. Community of the College of Justice : Edinburgh and the Court of Session, 1687-1808. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2012 9780748645770
ISBN	9780748645787 (electronic book)
	0748645780 (electronic book)
	9780748676545
	0748676546
	9780748645770

Title The community of the College of Justice : Edinburgh and the Court of Session, 1687-1808 / John Finlay.

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