Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
ROMAN LAW
1 Constitutum Possessorium
2 Acquisition of Ownership by traditio and Acquisition of Possession
3 Dating the Lex Aquilia
4 The Actio de Posito Reconsidered
5 Agency and Roman Law
6 Observations on Depositum Irregulare
7 The Importance of the iusta causa of traditio
ROMAN LAW AND SCOTS LAW
8 Roman and Scots Law - the Conditiones si sine Liberis Decesserit
9 The Interpretation of C 8.55.8
10 Cinus and Pierre de Belleperche
11 Roman Law in a Nineteenth-century Scottish Case: Gowans v Christie
12 Servitudes. Scots Law and Roman Law
13 Roman Quasi-delicts and Scots Law
14 Risk in Sale - From Roman to Scots Law
SCOTTISH LEGAL HISTORY
15 The Right of Women to Graduate in Medicine - Scottish Judicial Attitudes in the Nineteenth Century
16 Property and Succession Rights
17 George Joseph Bell - Law Commissioner
18 Variation and Discharge of Land Obligations
19 Stair, Grotius and the Sources of Stair's Institutions
20 The Acts of the Scottish Lords of Council in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries: Records and Reports
21 Balfour's Registrum
ROMAN LAW INFLUENCE
22 Scotland and France. The Legal Connection
23 A Comparison of the Infl uence of Roman Law in England and Scotland
24 The Civil Law in Scotland
GENERAL INTEREST
25 Scotland as a Mixed Jurisdiction
26 European Legal History and the Europeanisation of Law
27 Legal Tradition, with Particular Reference to Roman Law
28 List of Publications by William M Gordon
Table of Cases
Table of Statutes
Index