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Title

Roman Law, Scots Law, and legal history : selected essays / William M. Gordon.

Author

Gordon, William M.

Publication

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2007.

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Details

Description

xi, 398 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

Selection of articles and essays published by the author throughout his career in legal academics.

Series Statement

Edinburgh studies in law ; v. 4

Uniform Title

Edinburgh studies in law v. 4.

Subject

• Geschichte
• Law > Scotland > Roman influences
• Law > Scotland > History
• Roman law > History

Genre/Form

• History
• History (form)

Note

• Articles and essays published during the course of the author's career.

Bibliography (note)

• "List of publications by William M. Gordon": p. 376-381.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

ROMAN LAW -- Constitutum Possessorium -- Acquisition of ownership by traditio and acquisition of possession -- Dating the Lex Aquilia -- The Actio de Posito reconsidered -- Agency and Roman law -- Observations on Depositum Irregulare -- The importance of the iusta causa of traditio -- ROMAN LAW AND SCOTS LAW -- Roman and Scots law: the Conditiones si sine Liberis Decesserit -- The interpretation of C 8.55.8 -- Cinus and Pierre de Belleperche -- Roman law in a nineteenth-century Scottish case: Gowans v Christie -- Servitudes. Scots law and Roman law -- Roman quasi-delicts and Scots law -- Risk in sale: from Roman to Scots law -- SCOTTISH LEGAL HISTORY -- The right of women to graduate in medicine: Scottish judicial attitudes in the nineteenth Century -- Property and succession rights -- George Joseph Bell-Law Commissioner -- Variation and discharge of land obligations -- Stair, Grotius and the sources of Stair s Institutions -- The acts of the Scottish Lords of Council in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries: records and reports -- Balfour's Registrum -- ROMAN LAW INFLUENCE -- Scotland and France. the legal connection -- A comparison of the influence of Roman law in England and Scotland -- The civil law in Scotland -- GENERAL INTEREST -- Scotland as a mixed jurisdiction -- European legal history and the Europeanisation of law -- Legal tradition, with particular reference to Roman law.

ISBN

• 9780748625161
• 074862516X

OCLC

• 154711300
• SCSB-10002917

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library