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In Britain at least, changes in the law are expected to be made by
the enactment of statutes or the decision of cases by senior
judges. Lawyers express opinions about the law but do not expect
their opinions to form part of the law. It was not always so. This
book explores the relationship between the opinions expressed by
lawyers and the development of the law of Scotland in the century
preceding the parliamentary union with England in 1707, when it was
decided that the private law of Scotland was sufficiently
distinctive and coherent to be worthy of preservation. Credit for
this surprising decision, which has resulted in the survival of two
separate legal systems in Britain, has often been given to the
first Viscount Stair, whose Institutions of the Law of Scotland had
appeared in a revised edition in 1693. The present book places
Stair's treatise in historical context and asks whether it could
have been his intention in writing to express the type of
authoritative opinions that could have been used to consolidate the
emerging law, and whether he could have been motivated in writing
by a desire to clarify the relationship between the laws of
Scotland and England. In doing so the book provides a fresh account
of the literature and practice of Scots law in its formative period
and at the same time sheds light on the background to the 1707
union. It will be of interest to legal historians and Scots
lawyers, but it should also be accessible to lay readers who wish
to know more about the law and legal history of Scotland
A multi-disciplinary approach to two of the most important legal
institutions of the Middle Ages. The wars waged by the English in
France during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries led to the
need for judicial agencies which could deal with disputes that
arose on land and sea, beyond the reach of indigenous laws. This
led to the jurisdictional development of the Courts of Chivalry and
Admiralty, presiding over respectively heraldic and maritime
disputes. They were thus of considerable importance in the Middle
Ages; but they have attracted comparatively little scholarly
attention. The essays here examine their officers, proceedings and
the wider cultural and political context in which they had
jurisdiction and operated in later medieval Western Europe. They
reveal similarities in personnel, institutions and outlook, as well
as in the issues confronting rulers in territories across Europe.
They also demonstrate how assertions of sovereignty and challenges
to judicial competence were inextricably linked to complex
political agendas; and that both military and maritime law were
international in reach because they were underpinned by
trans-national customs and the principles and procedures of
Continental civil law. Combininglaw with military and maritime
history, and discussing the art and material culture of chivalric
disputes as well as their associated heraldry, the volume provides
fresh new insights into an important area of medieval life and
culture. ANTHONY MUSSON is Head of Research at Historic Royal
Palaces; NIGEL RAMSAY is Honorary Senior Research Associate in the
Department of History at University College London. Contributors:
Andrew Ayton, Richard Barber, John Ford, Laurent Hablot, Thomas K.
Heeboll-Holm, Julian Luxford, Ralph Moffat, Philip Morgan, Bertrand
Schnerb, Anne F. Sutton, Lorenzo Tanzini.
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