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To What Extent was the foundation of the College of Justice in 1532 a watershed in the history of Scots Law and of the Scottish legal profession?

Ewan J. Innes, MA(Hons Scot. Hist.) FSA Scot

© 1994

Synopsis:  This essay describes the foundation of the College of Justice and the impact it had on Scots Law and the Scottish legal profession.

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Primary
Acta Dominorum Auditorum of Causes and Complaints, 1466-94, ed. T.Thomson (London 1839)
Acta Dominorum Concilii in Civil Causes, 1478-1495, ed. T Thomson (Edinburgh 1839)
Acta Dominorum Concilii in Civil Causes, 1496-1501, ed. Neilson & Paton (Edinburgh 1918)
Acta Dominorum Concilii 1501-1503, ed. J.A. Clyde, Stair Society Vol. VIII
Acta Dominorum Concilii 1532-1533, ed. I.H. Shearer, Stair Society Vol. XIV
Acts of the Lords of Council in Public Affairs 1501-1554: Selections from the Acta Dominorum Concilii, ed. R.K. Hannay (Edinburgh 1932)
Balfour's Practicks, Stair Society Vols. III and IV
The Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland, eds. T. Thomson and C. Innes (Edinburgh 1814-75)
Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum, Vol. II, ed. J. Balfour Paul (Edinburgh 1984)
Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, Vol. II, ed. J.Balfour Paul & J.M. Thomson (Edinburgh 1984)
Scotichronicon, Walter Bower, ed. D.E.R. Watt (Aberdeen 1987-)
The Faculty of Advocates in Scotland 1532-1943. ed. Sir Francis Grant (Edinburgh 1944)
 
Secondary
An Introduction to Scottish Legal History. Stair Society Vol. XX
Cooper Rt. Hon. Lord "The Central Courts after 1532" Stair Society Vol. XX
Donaldson G. Scotland- James V-James VII (Edinburgh 1990)
Duncan A.A.M. "The Central Courts before 1532" Stair Society Vol. XX
Dunlop A.I. The Life and Times of James Kennedy, Bishop of St. Andrews (Edinburgh 1950)
Hannay R.K. The College of Justice Stair Society Supplementary Volume I
Lynch M. Scotland- A New History (London 1991)
MacDougall N. James III (Edinburgh 1982)
MacDougall N. James IV (Edinburgh 1989)
MacFarlane L. William Elphinstone and the Kingdom of Scotland (Aberdeen 1983)
MacMillan A.R.G. The Evolution of the Scottish Judiciary (Edinburgh 1941)
MacQueen H.L. "Jurisdiction in Heritage and the Lords of Council and Session after 1532" Stair Society Miscellany II
Nicholson R. Scotland- The Later Middle Ages (Edinburgh 1989)
Philipson N.T. "Scottish Whigs and the Reform of the Court of Session" Stair Society Vol. XXXVII
Sources and Literature of Scots Law. Stair Society Vol. I.

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