Author: Scotland. High Court of JusticiaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Court records
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The Justiciary Records of Argyll and the Isles, 1664-1742
Author: Scotland. High Court of JusticiaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Court records
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The Justiciary Records of Argyll and the Isles, 1664-1742
Author: John ImriePublisher:
ISBN: 9780902292000
Category : Court records
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
The Justiciary Records of Argyll and the Isles, 1664-1742
Author: Scotland. High Court of JusticiaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Court records
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Justiciary Records of Argyll and the Isles 1664-1742
Author: John (editor) ImrieA History of Private Law in Scotland
Author: Kenneth G. C. ReidPublisher:
ISBN: 9780198267782
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
Law in Scotland has a long history, uninterrupted either by revolution or by codification. This work is the first detailed and systematic study in the field of Scottish private law. It takes key topics from the law of obligations and the law of property and traces their development from earliest times to the present day.
An Institute of the Laws of Scotland in Civil Rights
Author: Lord Andrew MacDowall BanktonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Punishing the dead?
Author: R. A. HoustonPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191585122
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
What can we learn from suicide, that most personal and often inscrutable of acts? This strikingly original work shows how, from treatment of suicides in historic Britain, unique insights can be gained into the development of both social and political relationships and cultural attitudes in a period of profound change. Drawing ideas from a range of disciplines including law, philosophy, the social sciences, and literary studies as well as history, the book comprehensively analyses how successful and attempted suicide was viewed by the living and how they dealt with its aftermath, using a wide variety of legal, fiscal, and literary sources. By investigating the distinctive institutional environments and mental worlds of early modern England and Scotland, it explains why suicide was treated as a crime subject to financial and corporal punishments, and it questions modern assumptions about the apparent 'enlightenment' of attitudes in the eighteenth century. The book is divided into two parts. Part one examines the role of lordship in managing social and economic relationships following suicide and illuminates the importance of distinctive punishments inflicted on suicides' bodies for understanding historic communities. The second part of the book places suicide in its cultural context, analysing the attitudes of early modern people to those who killed themselves. It explores religious beliefs and the place of the devil as well as secular and medical understandings of suicide's causes in sources that include provincial newspapers. Informed by continental as well as British research, Punishing the Dead? explicitly compares England and Scotland, making this a completely British history. It also offers intriguing evidence for the importance of cultural regions and local vernaculars that transcend national boundaries.
The Politics of Religion in the Age of Mary, Queen of Scots
Author: Jane E. A. DawsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521809962
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Early modern historians have theorized about the nature of the new 'British' history for a generation. This study examines how British politics operated in practice during the age of Mary, Queen of Scots, and explains how the crises of the mid-sixteenth century moulded the future political shape of the British Isles. A central figure in these struggles was the fifth earl of Argyll, the most powerful magnate not only at the court of Queen Mary, his sister-in-law, but throughout the three kingdoms. His domination of the Western Highlands and Islands drew him into the complex politics of the north of Ireland, while his Protestant commitment involved him in Anglo-Scottish relations. His actions also helped determine the Protestant allegiance of the British mainland and the political and religious complexion of Ireland. Argyll's career therefore demonstrates both the possibilities and the limitations of British history throughout the early modern period.
Literacy and Historical Development
Author: Graff, Harvey JPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809389582
Category : Literacy
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Tracing Your Legal Ancestors
Author: Stephen WadePublisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1844686965
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The law had as much influence on our ancestors as it does on us today, and it occupies an extraordinary range of individuals, from eminent judges and barristers to clerks and minor officials. Yet, despite burgeoning interest in all aspects of history and ancestry, lawyers and legal history have rarely been looked at from the point of view of a family historian. And this is main purpose of Stephen Wades accessible and authoritative introduction to the subject. Assuming that the reader has little prior knowledge of how or where to look for such information, he traces the evolution of the law and the legal professions. He describes the parts played in the system by solicitors, officers of the High Court, registrars, recorders, town clerks, clerks of the peace, proctors, coroners, notaries, parliamentary agents, judges, barristers and magistrates. Also he identifies the various archives, records and books that the family researcher can turn to, and discusses other sources including the internet. Stephen Wades concise account of legal history and research resources will be an invaluable guide for anyone who is studying the subject or seeking an ancestor who was associated with it.