Violence, custom, and law
Subtitle: the Anglo-Scottish border lands in the later Middle Ages
By: Cynthia J. Neville.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
Subjects: Law -- Scotland -- History.; Law -- Great Britain -- History.; Scotland -- History -- To 1603.; Great Britain -- History -- 1066-1687.
Description: Long-standing hostility between Scotland and England affected the pattern of criminal activity in the Anglo-Scottish Border lands. This is an account of how the area created and refined a new system of law to deal with conflicts in the Middle Ages.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-218) and index.