An historical enquiry regarding the imposition of taxes upon land in Scotland. /
Thomson, Thomas,1768-1852.
Thomson, Thomas,1768-1852annotator.
Weir, J. L.,active 1946,former owner.StEdNL
[Edinburgh : s.n.],
MDCCCXVI. [1816],
The occasion of this treatise was the case of 6 October 1812 of Thomas Cranstoun, complainer, against Archibald Gibson, merchant of Leith, who had claimed enrolment as a freeholder on the basis that his land at Easter Briggs was a freehold of the old extent required by law. "An historical enquiry" is the memorial for Cranstoun arguing the contrary view. It is a dense legal argument based on old documents and the history of the estate.
Thomas Thomson was a scholarly Edinburgh advocate and friend of Sir Walter Scott who wrote extensively and was put in charge of Scotland's public records which he did much to restore and maintain.
Includes bibliographical references.
Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature,
The author's annotated copy. Manuscript signature of "J. L. Weir, Sept. 1946." on the front pastedown.
Land value taxation
Scotland Edinburgh.