Common law and feudal society in Medieval Scotland / Hector L. MacQueen.

Author
MacQueen, Hector L. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
Classic edition.
Published/​Created
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2016.
Description
lxi, 303 pages ; 22 cm.

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    Edinburgh classic editions
    Summary note
    Analyses the development of law and legal system in Scotland between c.1100 and c.1550, with a major focus on the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. 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.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-285) and indexes.
    Contents
    • Introduction
    • Lords' Courts and Royal Justice
    • Men of Law and Books of Law
    • Pleadable Brieves and Free Holdings
    • The Brieve of Novel Dissasine
    • The Brieve of Mortancestry
    • The Brieve of Right
    • Council, Fee and Heritage
    • Conclusions.
    ISBN
    • 1474407463
    • 9781474407465 ((paperback))
    LCCN
    2016295715
    OCLC
    920727761
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