Author: ScotlandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boroughs
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Ancient Laws and Customs of the Burghs of Scotland: A. D. 1124-1424
Author: ScotlandAncient Laws and Customs of the Burghs of Scotland
Author: ScotlandAncient Laws and Customs of the Burghs of Scotland: A. D. 1124-1424
Author: ScotlandThe Legal Language of Scottish Burghs
Author: Joanna KopaczykPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199945152
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The first monograph to examine textual standardization patterns in legal and administrative texts on the basis of lexical bundles, drawing from a comprehensive corpus of medieval and early modern legal texts
The Burghs and Parliament in Scotland, c. 1550–1651
Author: Alan R. MacDonaldPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317039696
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Existing studies of early modern Scotland tend to focus on the crown, the nobility and the church. Yet, from the sixteenth century, a unique national representative assembly of the towns, the Convention of Burghs, provides an insight into the activities of another key group in society. Meeting at least once a year, the Convention consisted of representatives from every parliamentary burgh, and was responsible for apportioning taxation, settling disputes between members, regulating weights and measures, negotiating with the crown on issues of concern to the merchant community. The Convention's role in relation to parliament was particularly significant, for it regulated urban representation, admitted new burghs to parliament, and co-ordinated and oversaw the conduct of the burgess estate in parliament. In this, the first full-length study of the burghs and parliament in Scotland, the influence of this institution is fully analysed over a one hundred year period. Drawing extensively on local and national sources, this book sheds new light upon the way in which parliament acted as a point of contact, a place where legislative business was done, relationships formed and status affirmed. The interactions between centre and localities, and between urban and rural elites are prominent themes, as is Edinburgh's position as the leading burgh and the host of parliament. The study builds upon existing scholarship to place Scotland within the wider British and European context and argues that the Scottish parliament was a distinctive and effective institution which was responsive to the needs of the burghs both collectively and individually.
Scotland and Ireland
Author: Edward PorrittBurgh laws of Dundee, with the history, statutes, & proceedings of the guild of merchants and fraternities of craftsmen
Author: Alex. J. WardenBurgh Laws of Dundee
Author: Alex J. WardenPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368164864
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.
A Bibliography of English Law ...
Author: Sweet & MaxwellExtracts from the Records of the Burgh of Glasgow ... A. D. 1573-17
Author: Glasgow (Scotland)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Glasgow (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description