Common Law and Feudal Society in Medieval Scotland
$84.54
- Paperback
324 pages
- Release Date
20 June 2016
Summary
An influential and key modern text in Scottish legal historyExploring the relationship between law and society, this classic edition of Common Law and Feudal Society brings a key legal history text back to life in a popular new series, affordable for the student of early Scottish legal history.The close links between the Scots and English law in the Middle Ages have long been recognised, but this classic text assesses the relevance of traditional approaches to Scottish legal history, setti…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474407465 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1474407463 |
| Author: | Hector L. MacQueen |
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Imprint: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 324 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 20 June 2016 |
| Weight: | 455g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 138mm |
| Series: | Edinburgh Classic Editions |
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There are indeed certain laws generally and frequently used in the courts which it does not seem to me absurd or presumptuous to commit to writing. And so some of these I have decided to render in writing at the command of the Lord King David.’ * Prologue to Regiam Majestatum, derived from the prologue to Glanvill *
About The Author
Hector L. MacQueen
Hector MacQueen has been a member of the Edinburgh Law School since 1979. Appointed to the Chair of Private Law in 1994, he was Dean of the Law School 1999-2003, and Dean of Research and Deputy Head of the College of Humanities and Social Science in the University 2004-2008. He is currently a Scottish Law Commissioner. He is the author of many books and articles on Scots law and its historical development in comparative perspective, and of key textbooks such as The Scottish Legal System (5th edition) (2013), Unjustified Enrichment Law Basics (3rd edition) (2013), and Studying Scots Law 4th edition (2012).
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