Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgements xii
5. ROMAN LAW
6. 1 Constitutum Possessorium 1
7. 2 Acquisition of Ownership by traditio and Acquisition of Possession 18
8. 3 Dating the Lex Aquilia 35
9. 4 The Actio de Posito Reconsidered 43
10. 5 Agency and Roman Law 54
11. 6 Observations on Depositum Irregulare 61
12. 7 The Importance of the iusta causa of traditio 70
13. ROMAN LAW AND SCOTS LAW
14. 8 Roman and Scots Law – the Conditiones si sine Liberis Decesserit 85
15. 9 The Interpretation of C 8.55.8 107
16. 10 Cinus and Pierre de Belleperche 112
17. 11 Roman Law in a Nineteenth-century Scottish Case: Gowans v Christie 126
18. 12 Servitudes. Scots Law and Roman Law 141
19. 13 Roman Quasi-delicts and Scots Law 148
20. 14 Risk in Sale – From Roman to Scots Law 164
21. SCOTTISH LEGAL HISTORY
22. 15 The Right of Women to Graduate in Medicine – Scottish Judicial Attitudes in the Nineteenth Century 177
23. 16 Property and Succession Rights 194
24. 17 George Joseph Bell – Law Commissioner 211
25. 18 Variation and Discharge of Land Obligations 231
26. 19 Stair, Grotius and the Sources of Stair’s Institutions 255
27. 20 The Acts of the Scottish Lords of Council in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries: Records and Reports 267
28. 21 Balfour’s Registrum 283
29. ROMAN LAW INFLUENCE
30. 22 Scotland and France. The Legal Connection 297
31. 23 A Comparison of the Infl uence of Roman Law in England and Scotland 309
32. 24 The Civil Law in Scotland 324
33. GENERAL INTEREST
34. 25 Scotland as a Mixed Jurisdiction 341
35. 26 European Legal History and the Europeanisation of Law 352
36. 27 Legal Tradition, with Particular Reference to Roman Law 362
37. 28 List of Publications by William M Gordon 376
38. Table of Cases 383
39. Table of Statutes 387
40. Index 389