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John Finlay - The Community of the College of Justice: Edinburgh and the Court of Session, 1687-1808 - 9780748645770 - V9780748645770
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The Community of the College of Justice: Edinburgh and the Court of Session, 1687-1808

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Description for The Community of the College of Justice: Edinburgh and the Court of Session, 1687-1808 Hardcover.
This is an institutional history of Scotland's 18th century legal community. How important can a court and its members be in influencing the development of a country? In Scotland's case, the answer is surprising. The remarkable metamorphosis of eighteenth-century Edinburgh, from crisis conditions in the 1690s through the Union to the intellectual heights of Enlightenment and the development of the spectacular New Town, owed a great deal to those who spent their professional lives working in the Court of Session as members of the unique institution known as the College of Justice. James Boswell, Lord Kames, Henry Dundas and Walter ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748645770
SKU
V9780748645770
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About John Finlay
John Finlay is senior Lecturer in Law at the School of Law, University of Glasgow.

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