"The volume is, in addition to fulfilling the Stair Society's key objective of encouraging the study and advancing the knowledge of the history of Scots Law by the publication of original documents and by the reprinting and editing of works of sufficient rarity or importance, an output of the AHRC funded project, The Community of the Realm in Scotland, 1249-1424: history, law and charters in a recreated kingdom" (publisher). Includes bibliographical references (pages 625-638) and index.
Contents:
Written law and the problems and possiblilities of the auld laws -- The manuscript catalogue -- Leges scocie: Introduction -- Leges inter Brettos et Scotos: Introduction -- Ayr Miscellany: Introduction -- Capitula assisarum et statutorum domini Dauid Regis Scocie: Introduction -- Leges Willelmi Regis: Introduction -- Statuta Regis Alexandri: Introduction -- The relationships between the manuscripts and the creating of legal antiquity in late medieval Scotland -- The unique nature of the Cromertie manuscript (MS H: NLS, Advocates MS 25.5.10) -- The editions.
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