Scotland's Foreshore : : Public Rights, Private Rights and the Crown 1840-2017 / / John MacAskill.
The story of the Crown’s challenge to Scottish foreshore ownershipThe ownership of Scotland’s foreshore has been a matter of a prolonged controversy. In the past, the debate centered on whether the shore was owned by the Crown or by adjacent proprietors and on how, and by whom, Crown-owned foreshore...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Scotland's Land : SCLA
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Glossary of Legal Terms
- 1 ‘A matter of prolonged controversy in Scotland’
- 2 ‘Illegal encroachments of the Crown on the rights of proprietors’
- 3 ‘A strange piece of legislation’ and ‘a Jesuitical paper’
- 4 ‘One of the most prominent and assertive members’
- 5 ‘A more favourable case to adopt could scarcely be obtained’
- 6 ‘What remains in the Crown cannot be of great extent’
- 7 ‘The proposals amount to the most bare-faced confiscation’
- 8 ‘The Argyll influence in Tiree is paramount’
- 9 ‘A genuine opportunity to change the fabric of Scottish society’
- Envoi
- Select Bibliography
- Index