The Stair Society: Scotland’s Legal History Society

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.

The following volumes are out of print and can only be obtained by searching second hand bookshops: 1 – 21 inclusive; 23; 24; 26 to 30 inclusive; 36; 42; 43; 50; 60; 64. Please contact the Secretary if you are interested in buying any of the other volumes.

Selected articles from our Miscellany volumes are freely available for download in PDF format.

Vol 52

Miscellany Five by Various Authors

Edited by Professor Hector L MacQueen with a preface by The Rt Hon. the Lord Hope of Craighead

Contributors: G W S Barrow, H L MacQueen, J W Cairns, Peter McNeill, A F Stewart, A D M Forte, A L Murray, David R Parratt, D J Cusine, R H Helmholz, James Chalmers, Thomas H Drysdale.

Published 2005

Vol 51

Compulsion and Restitution

Professor Jacques du Plessis

A historical and comparative study of the treatment of compulsion in Scottish private law with particular emphasis on its relevance to the law of restitution or unjustified enrichment.

Published 2004

Vol 50

The Business of the College of Justice in 1600

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

Vol 49

Miscellany Four by Various Authors

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

The Aberdeen Sheriff and Commissary Courts Stylebook 1722

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

The Minute Book of the Faculty of Advocates, Volume 3, 1751-1783

Edited and with commentary by Angus Stewart QC, Keeper of the Advocates Library, with an introduction by the Hon Lord Davidson.

Published 1999

Vol 45

Medieval Papal Representation in Scotland: Legates, Nuncios and Judges-Delegate 1225-1286

Paul Ferguson, PhD

Published 1997

Vol 44

Quoniam Attachiamenta

Edited and translated with an introduction by T David Fergus

Published 1996

Vol 43

An Institute of the Laws of Scotland in Civil Rights: Volume 3

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

An Institute of the Laws of Scotland in Civil Rights: Volume 2

Andrew MacDowell, Lord Bankton. This edition with a Foreword by Professor William Gordon

Published 1994

Vol 41

An Institute of the Laws of Scotland in Civil Rights: Volume 1

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

Selkirk Protocol Books 1511-1547

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

Miscellany Three by Various Authors

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

The Court Book of the Barony and Regality of Falkirk and Callendar. Volume I 1638-1656

Edited by the late Doreen M Hunter MA

Published 1991

Vol 37

The Scottish Whigs and the Reform of the Court of Session 1785-1830

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

Formulary of Old Scots Documents

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

Miscellany Two by Various Authors

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

The Court of the Official in Pre-Reformation Scotland

Simon Ollivant, MA, PhD

Based on the Surviving Records of the Officials of St Andrews and Edinburgh.

Published 1982

Vol 33

Stair Tercentenary Studies

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

The Minute Book of the Faculty of Advocates, Volume 2, 1713-1750

Edited by John M Pinkerton, Advocate

Published 1980

Availability

Volumes indicated as available may become unavailable without notice, as a result of sales. The Stair Society does not accept any liability in
relation to prospective purchasers for this.

From time to time the Society is asked to dispose of, or to source, extended runs or complete sets of volumes on behalf of members or their families. If you are interested in such sales or acquisitions, you are invited to direct your enquiries in the first instance to the Secretary.