Contents

pp v-vi

Preface

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements

pp ix-ix

Introduction

pp x-xxvi

FOUNDATION AND CONTINUITY

pp 1-2

1 - From Claves Curiae to Senators of the College of Justice: Changing Rituals and Symbols in Scottish Courts

pp 3-21

2 - English Looters and Scottish Lawyers: The Ius Commune and the College of Justice

pp 22-33

3 - Ius Civile in Scotland, c 1600

pp 34-66

4 - The Law, the Advocates, and the Universities in Late Sixteenth-Century Scotland

pp 67-87

5 - Scottish Law, Scottish Lawyers, and the Status of the Union

pp 88-114

6 - Natural Law, National Laws, Parliaments, and Multiple Monarchies: 1707 and Beyond

pp 115-143

7 - Attitudes to Codification and the Scottish Science of Legislation, 1600–1830

pp 144-220

SIGNIFICANCE OF DUTCH HUMANISM

pp 221-222

8 - Importing our Lawyers from Holland: Netherlands Influences on Scots Law and Lawyers in the Eighteenth Century

pp 223-241

9 - Three Unnoticed Scottish Editions of Pieter Burman's Antiquitatum Romanarum brevis descriptio

pp 242-252

10 - Legal Study in Utrecht in the late 1740s: The Education of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes

pp 253-300

DEVELOPMENT OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION

pp 301-302

11 - The Formation of the Scottish Legal Mind in the Eighteenth Century: Themes of Humanism and Enlightenment in the Admission of Advocates

pp 303-329

12 - Advocates’ Hats, Roman Law, and Admission to the Scots Bar, 1580–1812

pp 330-370

13 - Alfenus Varus and the Faculty of Advocates: Roman Visions and the Manners that were Fit for Admission to the Bar in the Eighteenth Century

pp 371-398

BLACKSTONE, FEUDALISM, AND INSTITUTIONAL WRITINGS

pp 399-400

14 - Craig, Cujas, and the Definition of Feudum: Is a Feu a Usufruct?

pp 401-412

15 - Blackstone, an English Institutist: Legal Literature and the Rise of the Nation State

pp 413-461

16 - Eighteenth-Century Professorial Classification of English Common Law

pp 462-481

17 - Blackstone, Kahn-Freund, and the Contract of Employment

pp 482-497

18 - The Moveable Text of Mackenzie: Bibliographical Problems for the Scottish Concept of Institutional Writing

pp 498-514

Index

pp 515-532