TY  - BOOK
AU  - Finlay,John
TI  - Legal practice in eighteenth-century Scotland
T2  - Legal history library
SN  - 9789004294943
AV  - KDC232 .F56 2015
U1  - 340.023/411 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill Nijhoff
KW  - Practice of law
KW  - Scotland
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Lawyers
KW  - Law
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 417-426) and indexes; Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Lawyers and Legal Practice -- 3 Income -- 4 Management -- 5 Ethics and Etiquette -- 6 Pro Bono -- 7 Societies -- 8 Solidarity -- 9 Burghs -- 10 Procurators Fiscal -- 11 Notaries -- 12 Conclusion -- Appendix -- Select Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004294943
ER  -