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A Manual of the Law of Scotland: Civil, Municipal, Criminal and Ecclesiastical: with a Practical Commentary on the Mercantile Law, and on the Powers of Justices of the Peace and other Magistrates
The Making of the Modern Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists, including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value to researchers of domestic and international law, government and politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and much more.
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Harvard Law School Library
ocm13686654
Oliver & Boyd, 1839. xxvii, 715 p.; 20 cm.
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Harvard Law School Library
ocm13686654
Oliver & Boyd, 1839. xxvii, 715 p.; 20 cm.
748 pages, Paperback
Published December 23, 2010
About the author
John Hill Burton
255 books1 followerJohn Hill Burton FRSE was a Scottish advocate, historian and economist. The author of Life and Correspondence of David Hume, he was secretary of the Scottish Prison Board (1854–77), and Historiographer Royal (1867 - 1881).
He was a contributor to Blackwood's Magazine and other periodicals, and in 1846 published a life of David Hume, which attracted considerable attention, and was followed by Lives of Lord Lovat and Lord President Forbes. He began his career as a historian by the publication in 1853 of History of Scotland from the Revolution to the Extinction of the last Jacobite Insurrection, to which he added (1867–70) History of Scotland from Agricola's Invasion to the Revolution, in 7 vols., thus completing a continuous narrative. Subsequently, he published a History of the Reign of Queen Anne (1880). He was one of the first historians to introduce the principles of historical research into the study and writing of the history of Scotland.
Other works of a lighter kind were The Book-Hunter (1862), and The Scot Abroad (1864).
He was a contributor to Blackwood's Magazine and other periodicals, and in 1846 published a life of David Hume, which attracted considerable attention, and was followed by Lives of Lord Lovat and Lord President Forbes. He began his career as a historian by the publication in 1853 of History of Scotland from the Revolution to the Extinction of the last Jacobite Insurrection, to which he added (1867–70) History of Scotland from Agricola's Invasion to the Revolution, in 7 vols., thus completing a continuous narrative. Subsequently, he published a History of the Reign of Queen Anne (1880). He was one of the first historians to introduce the principles of historical research into the study and writing of the history of Scotland.
Other works of a lighter kind were The Book-Hunter (1862), and The Scot Abroad (1864).
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