Vol 70
Edited by A.M. Godfrey, with a Preface by Sarah P.L. Wolffe
The ninth Stair Society Miscellany volume.
Published 2024
Stair Society Publications Directory
The main series of Stair Society publications is listed below by volume number – please click the entry titles for full details of each. Unless otherwise stated all volumes currently in print are available from the Avizandum Law Bookshop.
Selected articles from our Miscellany volumes are freely available for download in PDF format.
Vol 69
By David Chalmers of Ormond, edited by Winifred Coutts, Julian Goodare and Andrew R. C. Simpson
This sixteenth-century text has never been published before, but is the first comprehensive survey of Scots law ever written.
Published 2023
Vol 68
Edited and translated, with commentary, by John Reuben Davies. Introduction by Alice Taylor.
The first modern critical edition of the single most important text of medieval Scots law, presenting royal authority in the early fourteenth century and describing jurisdiction, law and procedure in the king’s courts.
Published 2022
Vol 67
Edited by A. M. Godfrey, with a Preface by the Hon. Lord Stewart
The eighth Stair Society Miscellany volume.
Published 2020
Vol 66
Edited and translated, with a catalogue, commentary, and introduction by Alice Taylor
A modern compilation of Scotland’s ‘auld lawes’, some of the earliest legal compilations to have survived from Scotland.
Published 2019
Vol 65
Edited and translated, with an Introduction and Commentary by J. D. Ford
Alexander King’s neglected treatise on Scots maritime law provides a reliable and interesting guide to the sea law of Scotland of the sixteenth century.
Published 2018
Vol 64
By Thomas Craig of Riccarton, translated, edited and annotated by Leslie Dodd
This is the first of a projected three volumes providing a Latin text and facing English translation of the Jus feudale of Thomas Craig.
Published 2017
Vol 63
Edited by Hugh M. Milne
This volume is an annotated edition of manuscript and printed legal papers drafted or dictated by James Boswell in cases that he was involved in during the period from 12 November 1767 to 11 November 1769. It continues the exploration of Boswell’s legal papers that Milne published as the Society’s 60th volume in 2013.
Published 2016
Vol 62
Edited by Hector L. MacQueen, with a Preface by the Hon Lord Stewart
The seventh Stair Society Miscellany volume.
Published 2015
Vol 61
Edited by Thomas M. Green, PhD, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
In this volume, Dr Green presents decisions of the Commissary Court in Edinburgh concerned with marriage at a time when the Protestant Reformation meant that spiritual jurisdiction over such matters was unclear. Green describes the situation in his Introduction which also includes brief biographies of the first four Commissioners: James Balfour. Edward Henryson, Clement Litill, and Robert Maitland.
Published 2014
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