Vol 50
Winifred Coutts, PhD
An analysis of the work of the Court of Session around 1600, and how it reflects the economic and social life of Scots men and women.
Published 2003
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.
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Vol 49
Edited by Professor Hector L MacQueen, with a preface by Lord Hope of Craighead
The fourth miscellany volume of The Stair Society.
Published 2002
Vol 47
Edited by M C Meston and A D M Forte
This volume discusses a collection of styles in use in local court practice in Aberdeen in the early eighteenth century.
Published 2000
Vol 46
Edited and with commentary by Angus Stewart QC, Keeper of the Advocates Library, with an introduction by the Hon Lord Davidson.
Published 1999
Vol 44
Edited and translated with an introduction by T David Fergus
Published 1996
Vol 43
Andrew MacDowell, Lord Bankton. This edition with a Foreword by Professor William Gordon
Full title: An Institute of the Laws of Scotland in Civil Rights with Observations upon the Agreement or Diversity between them and the Laws of England in Four Books, after the General Manner of the Viscount Stairs Institutions.
Published 1995
Vol 42
Andrew MacDowell, Lord Bankton. This edition with a Foreword by Professor William Gordon
Full title: An Institute of the Laws of Scotland in Civil Rights with Observations upon the Agreement or Diversity between them and the Laws of England in Four Books, after the General Method of the Viscount Stair’s Institutions.
Published 1994
Vol 41
Andrew MacDowell, Lord Bankton. This edition with a Foreword by Professor William Gordon
Full Title: An Institute of the Laws of Scotland in Civil Rights with Observations upon the Agreement or Diversity between them and the Laws of England in Four Books, after the General Method of the Viscount Stair’s Institutions.
Published 1993
Vol 40
Transcribed and edited by Teresa Maley and Walter Elliot with an introduction by Peter Symms
The Protocol Books of John Chepman 1511-36 and 1545-47, Sir John Chepman 1536-43, John and Ninian Brydin and other Notaries 1526-36 and John Brydin 1530-37.
Published 1993
Vol 39
Edited by Professor W M Gordon with a Preface by Professor Emeritus Gordon Donaldson, H M Historiographer in Scotland
The third miscellany volume of The Stair Society.
Published 1992
Vol 38
Vol 37
Nicholas Philipson
A Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of History of the University of Cambridge in Partial Fulfilment of the Regulations for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, 1967.
Published 1990
Vol 36
Compiled by Peter Gouldesbrough, former Assistant Keeper in the Scottish Record Office, with a Supplementary Essay on Early Scottish Conveyancing by Gordon Donaldson, H M Historiographer in Scotland
The main aim of this book is to provide a historical or genealogical researcher confronted by an old Scots legal document with ‘prior knowledge of what it contains’….It is hoped that the book may be of some help to students of the history of Scots Law aand to local archivists engaged in the listing of legal documents.
Published 1985
Vol 35
Edited by David Sellar, BA, LLB, Department of Scots Law, University of Edinburgh, with a Preface by the Rt Hon Lord Avonside
The second miscellany volume of The Stair Society.
Published 1984
Vol 34
Simon Ollivant, MA, PhD
Based on the Surviving Records of the Officials of St Andrews and Edinburgh.
Published 1982
Vol 33
By various scholars. Edited by David M Walker, QC, MA, PhD, LLD, FBA, FRSE, FSA Scot, Regius Professor of Law, University of Glasgow
Published 1981
Vol 32
Edited by John M Pinkerton, Advocate
Published 1980
Vol 31
Robert Burgess LLB, PhD
‘Perpetuities in Scots Law’ has its origin in a Ph.D. thesis submitted to the University of Edinburgh in 1975 and comprises, with a few modifications, the first part (and main text) of that thesis. It represents a study of the origins and development of the perpetuity principle in Scotland, of the rules of common law embodying that principle and of the legislation enacted in reaction to it.
Published 1979
Vol 30
Edited with an introduction by James Kirk, MA, PhD, Lecturer in Scottish History at the University of Glasgow
The records of the synod of Lothian and Tweeddale, which are the earliest extant synod records of the reformed church and the only synod records to have survived for the late sixteenth century, illustrate theh operation of the synod as a church judicatory during two distinct presbyterian phases, the first from 1589 to 1596, and the second during the covenanting ascendancy of the 1640s.
Published 1977
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