Advocatesâ Books in Early Eighteenth-Century Scotland

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Advocatesâ Books in Early Eighteenth-Century Scotland

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004315389_007

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Alongside his style books and collections of Acts of Parliament, Areskine had works of serious scholarship in civil law and natural law in his private library. The reliance on Roman law in Scotland in the early modern era led to the development of a âmixedâ legal system. Areskine had been the first Regius Professor of the Law of Nature and Nations at Edinburgh and he retained his interest in the subject, collecting the works of Grotius, Pufendorf, and their followers. Natural law was also greatly influential in early eighteenth-century Scotland and found its way into key works by Scottish jurists. It inspired the development of not only Scots law but also the wider philosophies of the Scottish Enlightenment. Interest in English law grew in Scotland after the Union of 1707. Legal books carried ideas across regions and borders and their readers interpreted, grafted, or wove them into their own legal systems as these developed across Europe throughout the early modern era. Scottish lawyers exploited books to find the best arguments to present in court but their deep knowledge of legal authorities and Classical history spilled out beyond the courts and into Edinburghâs intellectual community.

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Charles Areskineâs Library

Lawyers and Their Books at the Dawn of the Scottish Enlightenment

Series:Â Library of the Written Word, Volume: 48Â andÂ Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World, Volume: 48

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004315389

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2016

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