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The laws and customs of Scotland in matters criminal
- Title
- The laws and customs of Scotland in matters criminal / by Sir George Mackenzie ; edited by Olivia F. Robinson.
- Author
- Mackenzie, George, 1636-1691.
- Publication
- Edinburgh : Stair Society, 2012.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xxxi, 490 p.; 27 cm.
- Series Statement
- Stair Society ; 59
- Uniform Title
- Stair Society (Series) ; 59.
- Alternative Title
- Matters criminal
- Subject
- Note
- Annotated with contemporary footnotes, an introduction, and a glossary.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. xiii-xv) and indexes.
- Contents
- PART I: Of crimes in general, and by what law they are judged in Scotland -- The division of crimes -- Blasphemy -- Heresy -- Simony, Baratry -- Treason : laesa majestas -- Sedition -- Poison -- De incendiariis, or fire-raisers -- Witchcraft -- Murder -- Of duels -- Self-murder -- Parricide -- Incest, sodomy, bestiality -- Rapes or ravishing -- Adultery -- Bigamy -- Theft -- Theft-boot and receipt -- Hame-sucken -- Breaking of prison -- De dardanariis, or forestallers -- Usury -- The bribing, partiality, and negligence of judges -- Deforcement -- Falsehood -- Stellionatus -- Perjury -- Of injuries, personal and real, and of infamous libels -- Poinding of oxen in time of labouring -- Bearing of unlawful weapons -- Beggars and vagabonds -- Robbery, oppression, vis publica et privata -- Art and part, ope et consilio -- Some crimes punished amongst the Romans which are not directly in use with us
- PART II: Of jurisdiction in general -- Of the judge competent, de foro competenti -- Jurisdiction of the Parliament in crimes -- Jurisdiction of the High Constable in criminals -- The jurisdiction competent to the High Chamberlain, and magistrates of burghs royal -- The jurisdiction of His Majesty's Privy Council in criminals -- Of the Exchequer's jurisdiction in criminals -- The jurisdiction of the Lords of Session in criminals -- The Admiral's jurisdiction in criminals -- The jurisdiction of the Commissars in criminals -- The jurisdiction of Regalities in criminals -- The criminal jurisdiction of Barons -- Of Justices of Peace -- The jurisdiction of the Justices, and of the several employments of the officers of that court -- The jurisdiction of the Justices over soldiers, and of military crimes -- Advocations of criminal causes -- Of inquisition -- Of accusations and accusers -- Of advocates and procurators -- Of libels, and the forms of process thereto relating -- Of exculpation, and the other privileges competent to the defender -- Of assizes -- Of probation by confession -- Probation by oath, by writ, and by presumptions -- Probation by witnesses -- Of torture -- Of remissions -- Of prescription in crimes -- Of punishments, de poenis -- Of criminal sentences and their executions -- Vocabulary, with list of maxims.
- Call Number
- JFF 12-1245
- ISBN
- 9781872517261
- 1872517269
- OCLC
- 795836183
- Author
- Mackenzie, George, 1636-1691.
- Title
- The laws and customs of Scotland in matters criminal / by Sir George Mackenzie ; edited by Olivia F. Robinson.
- Imprint
- Edinburgh : Stair Society, 2012.
- Series
- Stair Society ; 59Stair Society (Series) ; 59.
- Original Version
- Reprint. Originally published: Edinburgh, 1678.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. xiii-xv) and indexes.
- Added Author
- Robinson, O. F.Stair Society.
- Spine Title
- Matters criminal
- Research Call Number
- JFF 12-1245