Legal Practice in Eighteenth-Century Scotland

Legal Practice in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 461
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ISBN-10 : 9789004294943
ISBN-13 : 9004294945
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Book Synopsis Legal Practice in Eighteenth-Century Scotland by : John Finlay

Download or read book Legal Practice in Eighteenth-Century Scotland written by John Finlay and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first monograph to analyse the workings of Scotland’s legal profession in its early modern European context. It is a comprehensive survey of lawyers working in the local and central courts; investigating how they interacted with their clients and with each other, the legal principles governing ethical practice, and how they fulfilled a social role through providing free services to the poor and also services to town councils and other corporations. Based heavily on a wide range of archival sources, and reflecting the contemporary importance of local societies of lawyers, John Finlay offers a groundbreaking yet accessible study of the eighteenth-century legal profession which adds a new dimension to our knowledge of Enlightenment Scotland.


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