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Roman Law, Scots Law and Legal History: Selected Essays

Edited by: William M. Gordon, Elspeth Reid

ISBN13: 9780748625161

Published: July 2007

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Country of Publication: UK

Format: Hardback

Price: £90.00

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Subjects:: Legal History

Contents:: Preface; Acknowledgements; ROMAN LAW: 1 Constitutum Possessorium; 2. Acquisition of Ownership by tradition and Acquisition of Possession; 3. Dating the Lex Aquilla; 4. The Actio de Posito Reconsidered; 5. Agency and Roman Law; 6. Observations on "Depositum Irregulare"; 7. The Importance of the iusta causa of tradition; ROMAN LAW AND SCOTS LAW: 8 Roman and Scots Law - the Conditiones si sine Liberis Decesserit; 9. The Interpretation of C 8.55.8; 10. Cinus and Pierre de Belleperche; 11. Roman Law in a Nineteenth Century Scottish Case: Gowans v Christie; 12. Servitudes, Scots Law and Roman Law; 13. Roman Quasi-delicts and Scots Law; 14. Risk in Sale - from Roman to Scots Law; SCOTTISH LEGAL HISTORY: 15 The Right of Women to Graduate in Medicine - Scottish Judicial Attitudes in the Nineteenth Century; 16. Property and Succession Rights; 17. George Joseph Bell - Law Commissioner; 18. Variation and Discharge of Land Obligations; 19. Stair, Grotius and the Sources of Stair's Institutions; 20. The Acts of the Scottish Lords of Council in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries: Records and Reports; 21. Balfour's Registrum; ROMAN LAW INFLUENCE: 22 Scotland and France. The Legal Connection; 23. A Comparison of the Influence of Roman Law in England and Scotland; 24. The Civil Law in Scotland; GENERAL INTEREST: 25 Scotland as a Mixed Jurisdiction; 26. European Legal History and the Europeanisation of Law; 27. Legal Tradition, with Particular Reference to Roman Law; 28. Bibliography; List of Cases; Index.