Roman Law, Scots Law and Legal History : : Selected Essays / / William Gordon.
A selection of key articles published by W. M. Gordon in the course of his careerW. M. Gordon, who retired from the Douglas Chair of Civil Law at the University of Glasgow in 1999, is well known for his distinguished contribution to Roman law, legal history and land law. He is the author of several...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Studies in Law : ESL
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- ROMAN LAW
- 1 Constitutum Possessorium
- 2 Acquisition of Ownership by traditio and Acquisition of Possession
- 3 Dating the Lex Aquilia
- 4 The Actio de Posito Reconsidered
- 5 Agency and Roman Law
- 6 Observations on Depositum Irregulare
- 7 The Importance of the iusta causa of traditio
- ROMAN LAW AND SCOTS LAW
- 8 Roman and Scots Law – the Conditiones si sine Liberis Decesserit
- 9 The Interpretation of C 8.55.8
- 10 Cinus and Pierre de Belleperche
- 11 Roman Law in a Nineteenth-century Scottish Case: Gowans v Christie
- 12 Servitudes. Scots Law and Roman Law
- 13 Roman Quasi-delicts and Scots Law
- 14 Risk in Sale – From Roman to Scots Law
- SCOTTISH LEGAL HISTORY
- 15 The Right of Women to Graduate in Medicine – Scottish Judicial Attitudes in the Nineteenth Century
- 16 Property and Succession Rights
- 17 George Joseph Bell – Law Commissioner
- 18 Variation and Discharge of Land Obligations
- 19 Stair, Grotius and the Sources of Stair’s Institutions
- 20 The Acts of the Scottish Lords of Council in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries: Records and Reports
- 21 Balfour’s Registrum
- ROMAN LAW INFLUENCE
- 22 Scotland and France. The Legal Connection
- 23 A Comparison of the Infl uence of Roman Law in England and Scotland
- 24 The Civil Law in Scotland
- GENERAL INTEREST
- 25 Scotland as a Mixed Jurisdiction
- 26 European Legal History and the Europeanisation of Law
- 27 Legal Tradition, with Particular Reference to Roman Law
- 28 List of Publications by William M Gordon
- Table of Cases
- Table of Statutes
- Index