The laws and customs of Scotland in matters criminal /

The laws and customs of Scotland in matters criminal /

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Author / Creator:Mackenzie, George, 1636-1691, author.
Imprint:Edinburgh : Stair Society, 2012.
[Getzville, NY] : William S. Hein & Company, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (xxxi, 490 pages).
Language:English
Series:HeinOnline Scottish legal history
Stair Society ; 59
Scottish legal history.
Stair Society (Series) ; 59.
Subject:
Criminal law -- Scotland.
Criminal procedure -- Scotland.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10997985
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Varying Form of Title:Matters criminal
Mackenzie : matters criminal
Other authors / contributors:Robinson, O. F., editor.
Stair Society, issuing body.
Notes:Originally published: Edinburgh : Printed by the heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson, printer to the King, for Mr. Andrew Symson, 1678.
Annotated with contemporary footnotes, an introduction, and a glossary.
Includes bibliographical references (pages xiii-xv) and indexes.
Description based on PDF title page, viewed May 2, 2016.
Other form:Original 9781872517261
Table of Contents:
  • part I. Of crimes in general, and by what law they are judged in Scotland
  • The division of crimes
  • Blasphemy
  • Heresy
  • Simony, Baratry
  • Treason : laesa majestas
  • Sedition
  • Poison
  • De incendiariis, or fire-raisers
  • Witchcraft
  • Murder
  • Of duels
  • Self-murder
  • Parricide
  • Incest, sodomy, bestiality
  • Rapes or ravishing
  • Adultery
  • Bigamy
  • Theft
  • Theft-boot and receipt
  • Hame-sucken
  • Breaking of prison
  • De dardanariis, or forestallers
  • Usury
  • The bribing, partiality, and negligence of judges
  • Deforcement
  • Falsehood
  • Stellionatus
  • Perjury
  • Of injuries, personal and real, and of infamous libels
  • Poinding of oxen in time of labouring
  • Bearing of unlawful weapons
  • Beggars and vagabonds
  • Robbery, oppression, vis publica et privata
  • Art and part, ope et consilio
  • Some crimes punished amongst the Romans which are not directly in use with us. part II. Of jurisdiction in general
  • Of the judge competent, de foro competenti
  • Jurisdiction of the Parliament in crimes
  • Jurisdiction of the High Constable in criminals
  • The jurisdiction competent to the High Chamberlain, and magistrates of burghs royal
  • The jurisdiction of His Majesty's Privy Council in criminals
  • Of the Exchequer's jurisdiction in criminals
  • The jurisdiction of the Lords of Session in criminals
  • The Admiral's jurisdiction in criminals
  • The jurisdiction of the Commissars in criminals
  • The jurisdiction of Regalities in criminals
  • The criminal jurisdiction of Barons
  • Of Justices of Peace
  • The jurisdiction of the Justices, and of the several employments of the officers of that court
  • The jurisdiction of the Justices over soldiers, and of military crimes
  • Advocations of criminal causes
  • Of inquisition
  • Of accusations and accusers
  • Of advocates and procurators
  • Of libels, and the forms of process thereto relating
  • Of exculpation, and the other privileges competent to the defender
  • Of assizes
  • Of probation by confession
  • Probation by oath, by writ, and by presumptions
  • Probation by witnesses
  • Of torture
  • Of remissions
  • Of prescription in crimes
  • Of punishments, de poenis
  • Of criminal sentences and their executions
  • Vocabulary, with list of maxims.

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