Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The United Kingdom, judicially, consists of three jurisdictions: England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. [4] There are important differences among Scots law, English law and Northern Irish law in areas such as property law, criminal law, trust law, [8] inheritance law, evidence law and family law while there are greater similarities in areas of UK-wide interest such as commercial ...
The nature of Scots law before the 12th century is largely speculative but most likely was a folk-right system applying a specific customary legal tradition to a certain culture inhabiting a certain corresponding area at the time, e.g. Brehon law for the Gaels (Scoti and men of Galloway and Ayrshire), Welsh law for lowland Britons of Yr Hen Ogledd, Udal law for the Norse of Caithness and the ...
[18] [19] A year later, in June 2024, a nine judge panel was called to hear a further case in which a ruling was sought by the Lord Advocate, Dorothy Bain, that the prosecution could rely on statements taken shortly after an alleged rape as corroboration of other evidence and of the fact that the accused committed the crime. In practice this ...
The concept of possession extends beyond Scots property law and is applicable in a variety of legal settings. These include: [84] Possession is a necessary requirement for the operation of positive prescription. One year's possession is a necessary requirement for an application for a prescriptive claim.
It has remained an authoritative source of Scotland's unique law into the modern era. In 1607 the Parliament of Scotland passed an act [11] for the publication of John Skene's compilation of the Regiam Majestatem, to be funded by the government, and Skene's version was published in 1609. [12]
He resumed study at Glasgow in 1945, graduating MA in classics in 1946 and LLB (Distinction) (Robertson Scholar) in 1948, and was called to the Bar the same year. [3] Whilst practising at the Bar he undertook postgraduate study as Faulds Fellow in Law at the University of Glasgow from 1949 to 1952 and was awarded a PhD by the University of ...
Bell became a member of the Faculty of Advocates in 1791, and was one of the close friends of Francis Jeffrey.In 1804 he published a Treatise on the Law of Bankruptcy in Scotland, which he enlarged and published in 1826 as Commentaries on the Law of Scotland and on the principles of Mercantile Jurisprudence, praised by Joseph Story and James Kent.
Memorial to Sir James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount Stair, St Giles Cathedral. Stair's major legal work, The Institutions of the Law of Scotland deduced from its Originals, and collated with the Civil, Canon and Feudal Laws and with the Customs of Neighbouring Nations, shows influences from his philosophical training, his foreign travels, and Continental jurists as well as English lawyers. [6]