The laws of medieval Scotland
Subtitle: legal compilations from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
By: edited by Alice Taylor
Series: The Stair Society -- 66; Stair Society (Series) -- 66
Publisher: The Stair Society
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng; lat
Translated from: lat
Number of pages: 657
ISBN-13: 9781872517339
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Law; History; Sources
Description: "The volume is, in addition to fulfilling the Stair Societys key objective of encouraging the study and advancing the knowledge of the history of Scots Law by the publication of original documents and by the reprinting and editing of works of sufficient rarity or importance, an output of the AHRC funded project, The Community of the Realm in Scotland, 1249-1424: history, law and charters in a recreated kingdom"--Publisher's description.
Notes: "The volume is, in addition to fulfilling the Stair Society's key objective of encouraging the study and advancing the knowledge of the history of Scots Law by the publication of original documents and by the reprinting and editing of works of sufficient rarity or importance, an output of the AHRC funded project, The Community of the Realm in Scotland, 1249-1424: history, law and charters in a recreated kingdom" (publisher).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 625-638) and index.

Includes Latin texts with English translations on facing pages.
Table of contents: title: Written law and the problems and possiblilities of the auld laws; title: The manuscript catalogue; title: Leges scocie: Introduction; title: Leges inter Brettos et Scotos: Introduction; title: Ayr Miscellany: Introduction; title: Capitula assisarum et statutorum domini Dauid Regis Scocie: Introduction; title: Leges Willelmi Regis: Introduction; title: Statuta Regis Alexandri: Introduction; title: The relationships between the manuscripts and the creating of legal antiquity in late medieval Scotland; title: The unique nature of the Cromertie manuscript (MS H: NLS, Advocates MS 25.5.10); title: The editions.