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 11

Edited and translated with an introduction and notes by the Rt Hon Lord Cooper, LLD

Published 1947

Vol 10

The Register of Brieves, edited by the Rt Hon Lord Cooper, LLD, Lord Justice-Clerk; Thomas Thomson's Memorial on Old Extent, edited by J D Mackie, CBE, MC, MA, Professor of Scottish History and Literature in the University of Glasgow

Full titles: The Register of Brieves, 1286-1386, as contained in the Ayr MS, the Bute MS and the Quoniam Attachiamenta, Thomas Thomson’s Memorial on Old Extent.

Published 1946

Vol 9

Edited by Gordon Donaldson, MA, PhD, with Prefatory Note by David Baird Smith, CBE, LLD

Published 1944

Vol 8

Transcribed by J A Crawford MA, LLB, Advocate. Edited with an introduction by the Rt Hon James Avon Clyde, LLD, formerly Lord Justice-General of Scotland and Lord President of the Court of Session

Published 1943

Vol 8

Transcribed by J A Crawford MA, LLB, Advocate. Edited with an introduction by the Rt Hon James Avon Clyde, LLD, formerly Lord Justice-General of Scotland and Lord President of the Court of Session

Published 1943

Vol 7

Transcribed and edited by Gordon Donaldson, MA, PhD and C Macrae, MA, D Phil

Published 1942

Vol 7

Transcribed and edited by Gordon Donaldson, MA, PhD and C Macrae, MA, D Phil

Published 1942

Vol 6

Edited by F P Walton LLD, KC (Quebec), Hon Fellow, Lincoln College, Oxford, formerly Director, Royal School of Law, Cairo, with biographical sketch of Lord Hermand by James Ferguson (with portrait)

Published 1940

Vol 5

Edited and annotated by G Campbell H Paton, MA, LLB, Solicitor and Assistant to Professor of Law in the University of Glasgow

Published 1939

Vol 1

Compiled by James Cowie Brown, MA, LLB, PhD

Published 1939

Vol 4

Edited by the Rt Hon James Avon Clyde, LLD, formerly Lord Justice-General of Scotland and Lord President of the Court of Session

Published 1938

Vol 2

Edited by Thomas Callander Wade, MA, LLB, Solicitor, Falkirk

Published 1937

Vol 3

Edited by the Rt Hon James Avon Clyde, LLD, formerly Lord Justice-General of Scotland and Lord President of the Court of Session

Published 1937

Vol 1

By various authors, with an introduction by the Rt Hon Lord Macmillan, PC, LLD, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary

Published 1936

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.