Common Law and Feudal Society in Medieval Scotland

by Hector L. MacQueen

Overview

An influential and key modern text in Scottish legal history
Exploring 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, setting the development of medieval law within the context of a society in which private lordship, exercised through courts and other less formal methods of dispute settlement, played a key role alongside royal justice.
Based on extensive research, this book examines the brieves of novel dissasine, mortancestry and right, and legal remedies for the recovery of land, as well as aspects of the early history of the Scottish legal profession and the origins of the Court of Session.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474407465
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	03/14/2016
Series:	Edinburgh Classic Editions
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	324
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

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 University2004-2008. 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).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Note on Editions of Texts; Preface; Foreword: Common Law and Feudal Society in Scholarship since 1993; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Lords’ Courts and Royal Justice; Chapter 3. Men of Law and Books of Law; Chapter 4. Pleadable Brieves and Free Holdings; Chapter 5. The Brieve of Novel Dissasine; Chapter 6. The Brieve of Mortancestry; Chapter 7. The Brieve of Right; Chapter 8. Council, Free and Heritage; Chapter 9. Conclusions; Bibliography; Indices.

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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.'

derived from the prologue to Glanvill Prologue to Regiam Majestatum