Scottish legal history
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Scottish legal history
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- A bibliography of Scottish law from earliest times to November, 1936 : together with a list of Roman law books in the English language
- A catalogue of the Lords of Session from the Institution of the College of Justice in the year 1532 : with historical notes
- A catalogue of the publications of Scottish historical and kindred clubs and societies : and of the volumes relative to Scottish history, issued by His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1780-1908, with a subject-index
- A chronicle of the late intestine war in the three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland : with the intervening affairs of treaties, and other occurrences relating thereunto ; as also the several usurpations, forreign wars, differences and interests depending upon it, to the happy restitution of our sacred soveraign K. Charles II : in four parts, viz. The commons war, democracie, protectorate, restitution
- A collection and abridgement of celebrated criminal trials in Scotland, from A. D. 1536 to 1784
- A collection and abridgement of celebrated criminal trials in Scotland, from A. D. 1536, to 1784
- A collection of Latin maxims & rules, in law and equity : selected from the most eminent authors, on the civil, canon, feudal, English and Scots law, with an English translation, and an appendix of reference to the authorities from which the maxims are selected
- A collection of the laws in favours of the Reformation in Scotland, in three parts : to all which is subjoined an index of the principal contents of these collections : the whole making up a genuine history of the legal establishment of religion in Scotland, from the Reformation (1560) to the present year 1749 : and wherein care is taken to distinguish the laws which were rescinded, from the laws that were never declared to be so
- A compendium of English and Scotch law : stating their differences, with a dictionary of parallel terms and phrases
- A compendium of the Canon Law for the use of the clergy and theological students of the clergy of the Church in Scotland : commonly called the Scottish Episcopal Church
- A compendium or general abridgement, of the Faculty collection of decisions of the Lords of Council and Session : from February 4, 1752 to the session of 1817 comprehending a period of sixty-five years with a list of the subjects, or general titles, abstract of the judgments of the House of Lords, alphabetical index thereof, and a comprehensive general index of the work
- A complete report of the trial of Dr. E.W. Pritchard, for the alleged poisoning of his wife and mother-in-law
- A complete report of the trial of Miss Madeline Smith : for the alleged poisoning of Pierre Emile L'Angelier
- A dictionary of the law of Scotland : intended for the use of the public at large, as well as of the profession
- A dissertation on the origin and progress of the Scythians or Goths : being an introduction to the ancient and modern history of Europe
- A handbook of husband and wife according to the law of Scotland
- A history of Scotland from the Roman evacuation to the disruption, 1843
- A history of Scotland from the Roman occupation
- A history of the Scotch poor law : in connexion with the condition of the people
- A practical treatise of the law concerning lunatics, idiots, and persons of unsound mind : with an appendix of the statutes of England, Ireland, and Scotland, relating to such persons, and forms of proceedings in lunacy
- A short account of the life and death of P. Heaman & F. Gautiez, who were executed within the Flood Mark of Leith, on the 9th January 1822, for murder and piracy : to which is added a short account of the life and death of Mary M'Kinnon, who was executed at Edinburgh, on the 16th April 1823 for the murder of William Howat
- A short history of Scotland
- A summary of the powers and duties of juries in criminal trials in Scotland
- A summary view of the feudal law, with the differences of the Scots law from it : together with a dictionary of the select terms of the Scots and English law, by way of appendix
- A translation and explanation of the principal technical terms and phrases used in Mr. Erskine's Institute of the law of Scotland : in the order of the books, titles, and sections
- A treatise of church-lands & tithes : in two parts : containing an historical account of ecclesiastical revenues, churches, church-yards, church-offices, benefices, glebes, manses, patronage, monachism, religious, and some military-orders, with a particular history of tithes; and a clear and full discussion of points of right and controversy, relating to these matters; and shewing how far the Scots and canon laws do agree, and differ. A distinct explanation of actions before the commission, concerning ministers stipends, tithes, erecting or transplanting churches, and the inlarging or restricting parishes. And of actions about ministers stipends, tithes, &c. falling under the cognisance of the Lords of Session
- A treatise on leases : explaining the nature and effect of the contract of lease, and the legal rights enjoyed by the parties
- A treatise on the election laws, as they relate to the representation of Scotland, in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- A treatise on the law of Scotland relative to parent and child and guardian and ward
- A treatise on the law of Scotland relative to parent and child and guardian and ward
- A treatise on the law of Scotland respecting tithes and the stipends of the parochial clergy : with an appendix containing various illustrative documents, not before published
- A treatise on the law of Scotland, respecting the erection, union, and disjunction of parishes : the manses and glebes of the parochial clergy, and the patronage of churches : with an appendix
- A treatise on the law of libel and slander : as applied, in Scotland, in criminal prosecutions, and in actions of damages : with an appendix, containing reports of several cases respecting defamation, which have not been, hitherto, published
- A treatise on the present state of the consistorial law in Scotland : with reports of decided cases
- A treatise on various branches of the criminal law of Scotland
- Additional case of Thomas Alexander Lord Lovat in the peerage of the United Kingdom : claiming to be Lord Lovat in the peerage of Scotland
- An abridgement of the acts of the Parliaments of Scotland, from the reign of James the First in 1424 to the union with England in 1707 : including verbatim all the acts now in force and use: with notes and references and an appendix, containing a chronological table of the titles of the whole acts and statutes passed by the Scottish Parliaments
- An abridgment of the public statutes in force and use relative to Scotland : from the union, in the fifth year of Queen Anne, to the twenty-seventh year of His Present Majesty, King George III, inclusive
- An account of the trial of Thomas Muir, esq. younger, of Huntershill, before the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, on the 30th and 31st days of August, 1793, for sedition
- An account of the trial of William Brodie and George Smith before the High Court of Justiciary : on Wednesday the 27th and Thursday the 28th days of August, 1788 for breaking into, and robbing, the General Excise Office of Scotland, on the 5th day of March last : illustrated with notes and anecdotes : to which is added, an appendix, containing several curious papers relative to the trial
- An enquiry into the history of Scotland : preceding the reign of Malcolm III, or the year 1056, including the authentic history of that period
- An examination of the trials for sedition which have hitherto occurred in Scotland
- An historical account of the antient rights and power of the Parliament of Scotland : humbly offer'd to the consideration of the estates, when they come to settle limitations for hte next successor : to which is prefix'd a short introduction upon government in general
- An idea of the modern eloquence of the bar : together with a pleading out of every part of law
- An impartial collection of the great affairs of state : from the beginning of the Scotch rebellion in the year MDCXXXIX. to the murther of King Charles I : wherein the first occasions, and the whole series of the late troubles in England, Scotland, & Ireland, are faithfully represented
- An inquiry into the state of the legal and judicial polity of Scotland
- An institute of the law of Scotland
- Annals of Scotland : from the accession of Malcolm III to the accession of the House of Stewart, to which are added, several valuable tracts relative to the history and antiquities of Scotland
- Annals of the Caledonians, Picts, and Scots : and of Strathclyde, Cumberland, Galloway, and Murray
- Arguments and decisions in remarkable cases : before the High Court of Justiciary, and other supreme courts, in Scotland
- Ballads of the bench and bar, or, Idle lays of the Parliament House
- Burke and Hare
- Calendars of the ancient charters, and of the Welch and Scotish rolls, now remaining in the Tower of London : also calendars of all treaties of peace entered into by the kings of England with those of Scotland; and of sundry letters and public instruments relating to that kingdom, now in the chapter-house at Westminster : together with catalogues of records brought to Berwick from the Royal Treasury at Edinburgh : of such as were transmitted to the Exchequer at Westminster, and of those which were removed to different parts of Scotland by order of King Edward I : the proceedings relating to the carrying back the records of Scotland into that Kingdom; and the transactions of the Parliament there from the 15th of May 1639, to the 8th of March 1650 : to which are added memoranda concerned the affairs of Ireland, extracted from the Tower records with four copper plates, exhibiting all the various hands in which the several charters have been written, from the reign of King William the Conqueror to that of Queen Elizabeth ; to the whole is prefixed an introduction, giving some account of the state of the public records from the conquest to the present time
- Campbell versus Campbell
- Case of Sir James Ramsay Gibson Maitland, Baronet : in support of his petition to Her Majesty to admit his succession and declare that he is of right entitled to the dignities of Earl of Lauderdale, Viscount of Lauderdale, Viscount Maitland, Lord Maitland of Thirlestane, and Lord Thirlestane and Boltoun in the peerage of Scotland
- Cases decided by the House of Lords on appeals and writs of error : 2° & 3° Victoriae, session of Parliament, 1839
- Cases decided in the Court of Session : during summer session 1794,-winter session 1794-5,-and summer session 1795
- Cases decided in the House of Lords, on appeal from the courts of Scotland
- Cases decided in the House of Lords, on appeal from the courts of Scotland
- Cases decided in the House of Lords, on appeal from the courts of Scotland
- Cases decided in the House of Lords, on appeal from the courts of Scotland
- Cases decided in the House of Lords, on appeal from the courts of Scotland
- Cases illustrative of the conflict between the laws of England and Scotland with regard to marriage, divorce and legitimacy : designed as a supplement to An essay upon the law respecting husband and wife
- Celtic Scotland : a history of ancient Alban
- Charters, bulls and other documents relating to the Abbey of Inchaffray, chiefly from the originals in the charter chest of the Earl of Kinnoull
- Chronicles of the Picts, chronicles of the Scots, and other early memorials of Scottish history
- Chronicon de Lanercost : M.CC.I.-M.CCC.XLVI., e codice Cottoniano nunc primum typis mandatum
- Circuit journeys
- Commentaries on the law of Scotland : respecting the description and punishment of crimes
- Commentaries on the law of Scotland and on the principles of mercantile jurisprudence
- Commentaries on the law of Scotland respecting crimes
- Commentaries on the law of suretyship and the rights and obligations of the parties thereto, and herein of obligations in solido : under the laws of England, Scotland and other states of Europe, the British colonies, and United States of America, and on the conflict of those laws
- Commentaries on the laws of Scotland and on the principles of mercantile jurisprudence
- Comparative principles of the laws of England and Scotland : courts and procedure
- Considerations concerning a proposal for dividing the Court of Session into classes or chambers : and for limiting litigation in small causes : and for the revival of jury-trial in certain civil actions
- Considerations on the introduction of jury trial in civil causes into Scotland
- Criminal trials illustrative of the tale entitled "The heart of Mid-Lothian" : published from the original record, with a prefatory notice, including some particulars of the life of Captain John Porteous
- Criminal trials in Scotland, from A.D. MCCCCLXXXVIII to A.D. MDCXXIV : embracing the entire reigns of James IV and V, Mary Queen of Scots, and James VI
- Curiosities of crime in Edinburgh during the last thirty years
- De unione regnorum Britanniae tractatus
- De verborum significatione : the exposition of the termes and difficill wordes conteined in the foure buikes of Regiam Majestatem, and uthers, in the Acts of Parliament, infeftments : and used in practique of this realme : with diverse rules and common places, or principalles of the lawes
- Decisions of the Court of Session
- Decisions of the Court of Session from its first institution to the present time : abridged and digested under proper heads in form of a dictionary
- Decisions of the Court of Session, M.DCC.LXXXI. -- M.DCCC.XXII : in the form of a dictionary
- Decisions of the Lords of Council and Session : from 1766 to 1791
- Decisions on the poor law of Scotland in the Court of Session, and awards by arbitration
- Dictionary of the decisions of the Court of Session : from November 1808, to November 1833
- Early Scottish charters : prior to A.D. 1153
- Ecclesiastical records of England, Ireland, and Scotland, from the fifth century till the Reformation : being an epitome of British councils, the legative and provincial constitutions, and other memorials of the olden time, with prolegomena and notes
- Elucidations respecting the common and statute law of Scotland
- Encyclopædia of the laws of Scotland
- Extract of the process of treason : at the instance of Sir James Steuart, Her Majesties advocate : and as having special warrant for that effect, against James Stirling of Keir, and others
- Feudal relations between the kings of England and Scotland under the early Plantagenets
- General synopsis of the decisions of the Court of Session : from its institution until November 1827
- History of Scotland, from the revolution to the extinction of the last Jacobite insurrection (1689-1748)
- History of cabinets : from the union with Scotland to the acquisition of Canada and Bengal
- Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland
- Information for Mungo Campbell, late officer of excise at Saltcoats, in a criminal prosecution before the High Court of Justiciary in Scotland, for the alleged murder of the late Alexander, Earl of Eglinton : Archibald, now Earl of Eglinton, and James Montgomery Esq, His Majesty's advocate, prosecutors
- John of Fordun's chronicle of the Scottish nation
- Latin phrases and maxims : collected from the institutional and other writers on Scotch law
- Law of highways in Scotland : with statutes and digest of decided cases in England and Scotland
- Letter to Sir J. Mackintosh, knt., M.P. : explanatory of the whole circumstances which led to the robbery of the Glasgow Sentinel Office, to the death of Sir Alexander Boswell, bart., to the trial of Mr. James Stuart, younger of Dunearn, and ultimately to the animadversions of the Honourable James Abercromby, in the House of Commons, upon the conduct of the Right Honourable the Lord Advocate and various individuals
- Letter to the honourable James Abercromby, M.P.
- Life and correspondence of David Hume
- Life of Lord Jeffrey : with a selection from his correspondence
- Lovat peerage : additional case on behalf of Thomas Alexander Lord Lovat, Baron Lovat of Lovat in the county of Inverness, claiming to be Lord Lovat in the peerage of Scotland
- Magna Carta : a commentary on the great charter of King John : with an historical introduction
- Memoirs relating to the restoration of King James I of Scotland
- Memorial for Archibald Douglas, of Douglas, Esq., and for Margaret, Dutchess of Douglas and Charles, Duke of Queensberry and Dover his curators, defenders, against George-James, Duke of Hamilton, Lord Douglas Hamilton and their tutors and Sir Hew Dalrymple, of Northberwick, baronet, pursuers
- Memorial for George-James Duke of Hamilton, Marquis of Douglas, Earl of Angus, &c. Lord Douglas Hamilton, and their tutors, and Sir Hew Dalrymple of Nothberwick, Baronet, pursuers : against the person pretending to be Archibald Stewart, alias Douglas, only son now on life of the marriage between Colonel John Stewart, afterwards Sir John Stewart of Grandtully, and Lady Jane Douglas, sister-german of Archibald Duke of Douglas, defender : to which are annexed, Sequel of the Memorial : in which the objections urged by the defender to the conduct of the cause, on the part of the pursuers, are considered : and appendix containing parallel cases of suppositio partus and remarks on the French cases quoted by the defender
- Narrative of some interesting particulars respecting Hugh M'Donald, Neil Sutherland, and Hugh M'Intosh, who were executed at Edinburgh, on the 22nd April, with some remarks by the ministers who attended them : to which is added a letter from Hugh M'Intosh to his parents : an account of the execution : and the pastoral admonition of the presbytery of Edinburgh, read in all the churches on 3d of May
- Narratives from criminal trials in Scotland
- Narratives of Scottish Catholics under Mary Stuart and James VI : now first printed from the original manuscripts in the secret archives of the Vatican and other collections
- Observations concerning the public law, and the constitutional history of Scotland : with occassional remarks concerning English antiquity
- Observations on the acts of Parliament, made by King James the First, King James the Second, King James the Third, King James the Fourth, King James the Fifth, Queen Mary, King James the Sixth, King Charles the First, King Charles the Second : wherein 1. It is observed if they be in desuetude, abrogated, limited, or enlarged, 2 The decisions relating to these acts are mentioned, 3. Some new doubts not yet decided, are hinted at, 4. Parallel citations from the civil, canon, feudal and municipal laws, and the laws of other nations are adduc'd, for clearing these statutes
- Observations upon the laws and customs of nations, as to precedency
- Politics and religion : a study in Scottish history from the Reformation to the Revolution
- Principles of equity
- Principles of equity
- Principles of the law of Scotland
- Proceedings against Wm. Murray Borthwick : at the instance of His Majesty's Advocate and of Robert Alexander, styling himself editor and proprietor of the Glasgow Sentinel newpaper
- Proceedings in the cause at the instance of David Jolly and others, a committee of proprietors of the Abbey chapel of Ease, Arbroath : against Mr. James Johnston M'Farlane, minister of said chapel
- Proof for Archibald, Douglas of Douglas, Esquire, defender : in the reduction, the Duke of Hamilton, Lord Douglas Hamilton, and Sir Hew Dalrymple, against him
- Regiam majestatem : the auld lawes and constitutions of Scotland : faithfullie collected furth of the register and other auld authentick bukes, fra the dayes of King Malcolme the Second, untill the time of King James the First, of gude memorie : and trewlie corrected in sindrie faults and errours, committed be ignorant writers : and translated out of Latine in Scottish language, to the use and knawledge of all the subjects within this realme with ane large table of the contents thereof
- Report of a case of legitimacy under a putative marriage : tried before the Second Division of the Court of Session in February 1811
- Report of proceedings at jury trial in the actions Thomas Freres against Archibald Orr Ewing & Co., et e contra, and Archibald Orr Ewing & Co., against Thomas Allan & Co. : held at Glasgow before Lord Gifford, October 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 7th, 1872
- Report of proceedings in causa Her Majesty's advocate v. Fleming and others : claiming the vessel "Pampero, " seized under the Foreign Enlistment Act (59 Geo. III. Cap. 69) : from the shorthand notes of J. Irvine Smith : with an appendix
- Report of proceedings in the trial by libel of John Brown, D.D., professor of exegetical theology to the United Secession Church, at the instance of Drs. James Hay and Andrew Marshall, before the United Associate Synod, July 1845 : preliminary proceedings : libel : answers and defences, Part 1
- Report of the Auchterarder case : the Earl of Kinnoull, and the Rev. R. Young, against the Presbytery of Auchterarder
- Report of the evidence taken before the judges in Scotland : on the Lovat claim of peerage (dated 5th May 1826)
- Report of the proceedings before the Court of Session in the case of M'Iver v. M'Iver
- Report of the trial before the High Court of Justiciary, Her Majesty's Advocate against the directors and the manager of the City of Glasgow Bank : and of the procedure upon the petition for bail : with lithographs of the scroll abstracts of accounts and the report of the investigators
- Report of the trial by jury of the action of damages for a libel in the Beacon newspaper : Lord Archibald Hamilton against Duncan Stevenson, printer in Edinburgh
- Report of the trial by jury, Professor John Leslie against William Blackwood, for libel in "Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine"
- Report of the trial of Alexander Humphreys or Alexander, claiming the title Earl of Stirling, before the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh, for the crime of forgery : with an appendix, containing the whole documentary evidence
- Report of the trial of Madeleine Smith : before the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh, June 30th to July 9th, 1857, for the alleged poisoning of Pierre Emile l'Angelier
- Report of the trial of Peter Heaman and Francois Gautiez or Gautier : for the crimes of piracy and murder before the High Court of Admiralty, held at Edinburgh on the 26th and 27th of November 1821
- Report of the trial of Robert Reid for murder : before the High Court of Justiciary on Monday, 29th June, 1835
- Report of the trial of Thomas Hunter, Peter Hacket, Richard M'Neil, James Gibb, and William M'Lean, operative cotton-spinners in Glasgow : before the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh, on Wednesday, January 3, 1838, and seven following days : for the crimes of illegal conspiracy and murder : with an appendix of documents and relative proceedings
- Report of the trial of the Dynamitards : Terence M'Dermott, Thomas Devany, Peter Callaghan or Kellochan, Henry M'Cann, James M'Cullagh or M'Culloch, James Donnelly, James Kelly, Patrick M'Cabe, Patrick Drum, Denis Casey before the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, December 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st, 1883, for treason-felony under the statute 11 Vict. Cap.12, section 3, or otherwise conspiracy to effect an alteration of the laws and constitution of the realm by force and violence
- Report of the trial of the directors of the City of Glasgow Bank before the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh : from Monday, January 20, 1879 to Saturday, February 1, 1879
- Report of trial of the issues in the action of damages for libel in the Beacon : James Gibson of Ingliston, Esq., clerk to the Signet, pursuer, against Duncan Stevenson, printer in Edinburgh, defender
- Report of trial of the issues in the action of defamation and damages : William Fraser Tytler, Esq., of Burdsyards, &c., sheriff-depute and vice-lieutenant of the county of Inverness, pursuer, against Lachlan Mackintosh, Esq., of Raigmore, defender
- Reports of cases decided in the supreme courts of Scotland and in the House of Lords on appeal from Scotland
- Rerum Scoticarum historia
- Robert the Bruce and the struggle for Scottish independence
- Scotch county courts : twelve articles reprinted from "the Edinburgh evening courant."
- Scotland : the ancient kingdom
- Scotland and the protectorate : letters and papers relating to the military government of Scotland from January 1654 to June 1659
- Scotland as it was and as it is
- Scotland under her early kings : a history of the kingdom to the close of the thirteenth century
- Scottish formularies
- Scottish law review and reports of cases in the sheriff courts of Scotland
- Scottish witchcraft trials
- Selections from Barbour's Bruce : Books I-X, with the notes thereto, and the preface and glossarial index to the whole work (twenty books, etc.)
- Session notes : notes of cases decided in the Court of Session, and also in the Court of Justiciary and House of Lords
- Sir Walter Scott as a judge : his decisions in the Sheriff Court of Selkirk
- Sir William Alexander and American colonization : including three royal charters ; a tract on colonization ; a patent of the county of Canada and of Long Island ; and the roll of the knights baronets of New Scotland
- Speech of John Peter Grant, Esq. in the House of Commons, on Tuesday, the 10th of February 1818 : on Lord Archibal Hamilton's motion, relating to the conduct of the law officers of the crown, in Scotland
- State of the process of improbation, reduction, and declarator : Alexander Irvine of Drum, Esq. and his curators, against George Earl of Aberdeen, and others
- Statutes of the Scottish church, 1225-1559 : being a translation of Concilia Scotiae, Ecclesiae scoticanae statuta tam provincialia quam synodalia quae supersunt
- Studies in Roman law with comparative views of the laws of France, England, and Scotland
- Studies in Roman law with comparative views of the laws of France, England, and Scotland
- Supplement to the Dictionary of the decisions of the Court of Session
- Terrors of the law : being the portraits of three lawyers "Bloody Jeffreys," "The Bluidy Advocate Mackenzie," the original weir of Hermiston
- The Bruce, or, the book of the most excellent and noble prince, Robert de Broyss, King of Scots, Books I-X
- The Church of Scotland, past and present : its history, its relation to the law and the state, its doctrine, ritual, discipline, and patrimony
- The College of Justice
- The Cromwellian union : papers relating to the negotiations for an incorporating union between England and Scotland, 1651-1652 : with an appendix of papers relating to the negotiations in 1670
- The Douglas cause
- The Edinburgh law journal
- The Free Church case : containing 1. What the pursuers asked. 2. Their statement of the grounds of their claim. 3. The answers of the defenders. 4. A verbatim report of the opinions of the judges in the Court of Session and House of Lords
- The Scots black kalendar : a record of criminal trials and executions in Scotland, 1800-1910
- The Scots revised reports, Cases reported only in the Scottish jurist, 1829 to 1865
- The Scots revised reports, Court of Sessions, first series, containing Shaw vols. I to XVI, 1821 to 1838
- The Scots revised reports, Court of Sessions, second series, containing Dunlop vols. I to XXIV, 1838 to 1862
- The Scots revised reports, Court of Sessions, third series, containing Macpherson vol. I to XI, 1862-73
- The Scots revised reports, Faculty collection
- The Scots revised reports, House of Lords series
- The Scots revised reports, Morison's dictionary
- The Scottish Parliament : its constitution and procedure 1603-1707 : with an appendix of documents
- The Scottish bar fifty years ago : sketches of Scott and his contemporaries
- The Scottish jurist : being reports of cases decided in the supreme courts of Scotland, and in the House of Lords on appeal from Scotland
- The Scottish law magazine and Sheriff Court reporter, New series
- The Scottish poor laws : their history, policy, and operation
- The Scottish war of independence : its antecedents and effects
- The Spottiswoode miscellany : a collection of original papers and tracts, illustrative chiefly of the civil and ecclesiastical history of Scotland
- The Stair Society
- The Yelverton marriage case : Thelwall v. Yelverton : comprising an authentic and unabridged account of the most extraordinary trial of modern times, with all its revelations, incidents, and details specially reported
- The affecting history of Tom Bragwell : an unhappy young man, who was cut off for his crimes in the morning of his days, with some accourt of his companions in iniquity : wherein, are strikingly delineated the rise, progress and fatal termination of juvenile delinquency : and in which frequent allusion is made to certain facts, connected with the history of the times, particularly to the cases of the three young men, who were executed at Edinburgh a few years ago : humbly recommended to the serious attention of youth, as well as to the consideration of all parents, guardians, teachers, masters, and heads of families, who feel themselves interested in checking the first approaches to vice in the rising generation from a principle of humanity, and regard to the axiom, that, "It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them."
- The arraignment, trials, conviction and condemnation of Sir Rich. Grahme, Bart., Viscount Preston in the kingdom of Scotland, and John Ashton, gent., for high-treason against Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary, in conspiring the deposition and death of Their Majesties, the alteration of the present government, the invasion of this kingdom of England by the French king and raising a rebellion within this kingdom against Their Majesties : at the sessions of gaol-delivery of Newgate, holden for the county of Middlesex at Justice Hall in Old-Baily, on the 16th, 17th and 19th days of January, 1690, in the second year of Their Majesties reign : to which are added, two letters taken at Dublin the 4th of July, 1690 : one from the late King James to the Pope, dated at Dublin, Novemb. 26, 1689 : the other from the Earl of Melfort, the said late King's principal secretary of state, sent to the late Queen, dated at Rome, May 2, 1690
- The awakening of Scotland : a history from 1747 to 1797
- The black kalendar of Scotland : records of notable Scotish trials : first series
- The book of Scotland
- The case of the respondent : the above designed Major Yelverton
- The civil law tradition in Scotland
- The constitutional history of Scotland : from early times to the Reformation
- The decisions of the Court of Session : from its institution until the separation of the court into two divisions in the year 1808 : digested under proper heads, in the form of a dictionary : in which the decisions in manuscript in the library of the Faculty of Advocates are published, for the first time, and those formerly printed are corrected : with additions in notes, and with a synopsis
- The decisions of the Lords of Council and Session, in the most important cases debate before them : with the Acts of Sederunt. As also, an alphabetical compend of the decisions; with an index of the Acts of Sederunt, and the pursuers and defenders names, from June 1661, to July 1681
- The evolution of the Scottish judiciary
- The fatal countess and other studies
- The feudal forms of Scotland viewed historically since the first appearance of written titles to lands in that part of Great Britain
- The historie and cronicles of Scotland : from the slauchter of King James the First to the ane thousande Fyve hundreith thrie scoir fyftein zeir
- The history of England
- The history of Scotland
- The history of Scotland
- The history of Scotland : from Agricola's invasion to the revolution of 1688
- The history of Scotland : from the earliest period to the present time
- The history of Scotland : from the earliest period to the present time
- The history of Scotland, from the union of the crowns on the accession of James VI. to the throne of England, to the union of the kingdoms in the reign of Queen Anne
- The history of civilisation in Scotland
- The history of the Reformation of religion in Scotland : to which are appended several other pieces of his writing, including the First book of discipline, complete, and his dispute with the Abbot of Crossrague, not given with any former edition
- The history of the union between England and Scotland : with a collection of original papers relating thereto
- The index or abridgement, of the acts of Parliament and Convention : from the first parliament of King James I holden the 26 Maii, anno 1424, to the fourth session of the first parliament of Her Majesty Queen Anne, concluded the 25 March 1707, before the union of the two kingdoms of Scotland and England; revised and compleated : with the act ratifying and approving the treaty of union of the two kingdoms, verbatim subjoined
- The institutions of the law of Scotland : deduced from its originals, and collated with civil and feudal laws, and with the customs of neighbouring nations
- The institutions of the law of Scotland : deduced from its originals, and collated with the civil and feudal laws, and with the customs of neighbouring nations : in four books
- The journal of the proceedings of the Lds. Commissioners of both nations in the treaty of union : which began on the 16th of April 1706, and was concluded on the 22d of July following : with the articles then agreed on
- The lavves and actes of Parliament : maid be King Iames the First, and his svccessovrs kinges of Scotland
- The law of Scotland in relation to the presumption of life of absent persons
- The law of damages : a treatise on the reparation of injuries, as administered in Scotland
- The law of defamation and verbal injury
- The law of water and water rights in Scotland
- The law of wills in Scotland
- The law reports, Scotch and divorce appeal cases before the House of Lords
- The legislative union of England & Scotland : the Ford lectures delivered in Hilary term, 1914
- The life of David Haggart : alias John Wilson, alias John Morison, alias Barney M'Coul, alias John M'Colgan, alias Daniel O'Brien, alias the Switcher
- The life of King James the First
- The life of Saint Columba : founder of Hy
- The life of Thomas Muir, Esq. advocate, younger of Huntershill, near Glasgow, member of the convention of delegates for reform in Scotland, etc., etc. : who was tried for sedition before the High Court of Justiciary in Scotland, and sentenced to transportation for fourteen years : with a full report on his trial
- The lord advocates of Scotland : from the close of the fifteenth century to the passing of the reform bill
- The love letters of Mary, Queen of Scots, to James, Earl of Bothwell : with her love sonnets and marriage contracts, (being the long-missing originals from the gilt casket) : explained by state papers, and the writings of Buchanan, Goodall, Robertson, Hume, Lord Hailes, Lord Ellibank, Tytler, Horace Walpole, Whitaker, Laing, Chalmers, Brantome, Ronsard, Miss Benger, and a host of authors : forming a complete history of the origin of the Scottish queen's woes and trials, before Queen Elizabeth
- The making of Scotland : lectures on the War of Independence delivered in the University of Glasgow
- The measure of damages in actions of maritime collisions
- The memoires of sir James Melvil of Hal-Hill : containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the last age, not mention'd by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under the reigns of queen Elizabeth, Mary queen of Scots, and king James ... ; now published from the original manuscript
- The orygynale cronykil of Scotland
- The proceedings of a general court martial : held at the castle of Edinburgh, on Tuesday the 6th, and continued by several adjournments till Saturday the 24th of January 1795, upon the trials of Donald M'Callum, John Scrymgeour, John Malloch, Ludovick M'Naughton, Duncan Stewart, John M'Martin, and Alexander Sutherland, all private soldiers in the 1st Battalion of the 4th Fencible Regiment, for mutiny : published by authority
- The respective rights of settlor, liferenter or tenant for life, and fiar or remainderman of shares in a public company
- The rise of the Stewarts
- The sett, or Decreet arbitral of King James VI, of blessed memory : deciding all the differences betwixt merchants and trades, anent the government of the city of Edinburgh: as it is registrate in the books of Council and Session, and ratified in Parliament. : together with the acts of the Town Council, determining the time of the continuation of the provost, dean of gild, and thesaurer, to be no longer than one or two years together at one time
- The social and industrial history of Scotland : from the union to the present time
- The speeches and judgement of the Lords of Council and Session in Scotland, upon that important cause, George James, Duke of Hamilton and others, pursuers, against Archibald Douglas, defender
- The speeches, arguments, and determinations of the Right Honourable the Lords of Council and Session in Scotland, upon that important cause : wherein His Grace the Duke of Hamilton and others were plaintiffs, and Archibald Douglas of Douglas Esq., defendant : with an introductory preface, giving an impartial and distinct account of this suit
- The story of Scotland : from the earliest times to the present century
- The trial of Alexander M'Laren, and Thomas Baird, before the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, on the 5th and 7th March 1817, for sedition
- The trial of Andrew M'Kinley before the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, on the 26th July, 1817, for administering unlawful oaths : with the antecedent proceedings against William Edgar, John Keith, and Andrew M'Kinley
- The trial of Andrew M'Kinley, before the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, on the 18th day of July 1817, for administering unlawful oaths
- The trial of James Carnegie of Finhaven : before the Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, in the year 1728, indicted for the murder of the Earl of Strathmore
- The trial of James Stuart, Esq., younger of Dunearn : before the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, on Monday, June 10, 1822
- The trial of Joseph Gerrald, delegate from the London Corresponding Society to the British Convention : before the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh on the 3d, 10th, 13th, and 14th of March 1794, for sedition
- The trial of Katharine Nairn and Patrick Ogilvie for the crimes of murder and incest : containing the whole procedure of the High Court of Justiciary, upon the 5th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, and 16th days of August 1765
- The trial of Maurice Margarot : before the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, on the 13th and 14th of January, 1794, on an indictment for seditious practices
- The trial of Robert Watt for high treason : before the court under the special commission of Oyer and Terminer, held at Edinburgh
- The trial of Sir Archibald Gordon Kinloch, of Gilmerton, Bart. for the murder of Sir Francis Kinloch, Bart. his brother-german : before the High Court of Justiciary on Monday June 29. 1795 : taken in short hand, and carefully revised by the counsel
- The trial of Thomas Hunter, Peter Hacket, Richard M'Niel, James Gibb, and William M'Lean, the Glasgow cotton-spinners : before the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh : on charges of murder, hiring to commit assassinations, and committing, and hiring to commit violence to persons and property
- The trial of Thomas Muir, Esq., younger of Huntershill, before the High Court of Justiciary, upon Friday and Saturday the 30th and 31st days of August, 1793, on a charge of sedition
- The trial of William Brodie wright and cabinet maker in Edinburgh, and of George Smith grocer there, before the High Court of Justiciary, held at Edinburgh on Wednesday the 27th, and Thursday the 28th, August 1788 : for breaking into the General Excise-Office at Edinburgh on the 5th of March last : containing the evidence at large for and against the prisoners, accurate statements of the pleadings of the counsel, and the opinions of the judges on many important points of law, with the whole proceedings
- The trial of the Rev. Thomas Fyshe Palmer : before the Circuit Court of Justiciary, held at Perth, on the 12th and 13th September, 1793, on an indictment for seditious practices
- The trial, before the lord president of the Court of session, Lord Mackenzie, and a special jury, (taken in shorthand) of the issues in the action of damages at the instance of Lady Ramsay, widow of the late Colonel Sir Thomas Ramsay of Balmain, baronet, against James Nairne, W.S., for falsehood and defamation : containing the speeches of counsel, and charge of the lord president, with the whole evidence, and an appendix of letters and documents
- The trial, execution and death of Mary Queen of Scots
- The tryal of Captain Thomas Green and his crew : pursued before the judge of the High Court of Admirality of Scotland, and the assessors appointed by the lords of Privy Council, at the instance of Mr. Alexander Higgins, advocat, procurator-fiscal to the said court : for piracy, robbery, & murder : faithfully extracted from the records of the said court, and other authentick documents
- Thomae Cragii de Riccartoun in Senatu Edenburgensi patroni & jure consultissimi jus feudale : tribus libris comprehensum : quod, praeter jus commune Longobardicum, feudales Angliae Scotiaeque consuetudines complectitur : opus in Germania dudum desideratum
- Thoughts on the origin of feudal tenures, and the descent of ancient peerages, in Scotland : addressed to ***
- Thoughts on the union between England & Scotland
- Tracts, legal and historical
- Trial before the High Court of Justiciary in Scotland, at the instance of Daniel Ross, woodsawer in Aberdeen : against Lieutenant-Colonel George Mackenzie, Captain Felix Bryan Macdonogh, Serjeants Andrew Mackay & Alex. Sutherland, all of the late regiment of Ross & Cromarty rangers, for the murder of John Ross, late soldier in the corps of riflemen, in the streets of Aberdeen, on the fourth of June, 1802
- Trial of A. J. Monson
- Trial of A.J. Monson
- Trial of Captain Porteous
- Trial of David Downie for high treason : before the Court, under the special Commission of Oyer and Terminer, held at Edinburgh
- Trial of Dr. Pritchard
- Trial of John Donald Merrett
- Trial of John Watson Laurie (the Arran murder)
- Trial of Katharine Nairn
- Trial of Mary Queen of Scots
- Trial of Miss Madeline Smith, in the High Court of Justiciary, on the charge of poisoning, June 30-July 9, 1857
- Trial of Mrs. M'Lachlan
- Trial of Wiliam Rojer in the Hi Kort ov Justiciari, Edinburg, on de carj ov folshud, frod & wilful impozicon : wid an apendiks
- Trial of William Burke and Helen M'Dougal : before the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh on Wednesday, December 24, 1828 for the murder of Margery Campbell or Docherty
- Trial of the City of Glasgow Bank directors
- Trial of the Rev. Niel Douglas, before the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh on the 26th May 1817, for sedition
- Trials for high treason, in Scotland : under a special commission, held at Stirling, Glasgow, Dumbarton, Paisley, and Ayr, in the year 1820
- Twelve Scots trials
- Two orders of the right honourable the Lords spiritual and temporal in Parliament assembled, made the fifth of August last, requiring the Lords of the session in Scotland to lay before their Lordships, at the beginning of this session of Parliament, matters relating to heretable jurisdictions, and heretable sheriffships, in that part of Great Britain called Scotland : together with the returns made by the said Lords of Session pursuant to the said two orders
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