Scottish Legal History

Part One.The Origins of the Scottish Comon Law to c.1230.Chapter. 1.From legal diversity to some legal commonality --Part TwoThe Consolidation of the common law, c.1230-c.1450 --Chapter 2.The Brieves (Part One) --Chapter 3.The Brieves (Part Two) --Chapter 4.'Crimes' --Chapter 5.Law and order in the Highlands and Islands --Part Three.The Transformation of the Scottish Common Law and the session, c. 1450-c. 1580.Chapter 6.The Jurisdiction of the Session --Chapter 7.Legal learning and legal authority in the College of Justice --Chapter 8.Reformation, revolution and the legal system --Chapter 9.The learned authority of Scots Law --Chapter 10.Legal learning and the power of parliament --Part Four.Regal Union with England, c.1580-1707.Chapter 11.Authority and government in the Scottish Reign of James VI --Chapter 12.Authority and government after 1603 --Chapter 13.Interregnum or Republic in the 1650s --Chapter 14.Legal Literature --Chapter 15.Legal authority and the learned laws --Chapter 16.Legal authority of Scottish sources --Chapter 17.Advocates in the Court of Session and inferior jurisdictions in Aberdeen --Chapter 18.Advocates, witches and judicial torture --Chapter 19.Revolution and union.