We are pleased to announce that Scottish Legal History: Featuring Publications of the Stair Society is now available as an a-la-carte Library in HeinOnline!
HeinOnline has partnered with the Stair Society to bring the history of Scots Law to the forefront, providing access in an online searchable format that has never been available before! HeinOnline’s Scottish Legal History library is built upon our new legal research platform which brings together the primary sources on Scots Law and other sources, including books, abridgments and links to scholarly law review articles, into one database.
Founded in 1934, the Stair Society serves to encourage the study and advance the knowledge of the history of Scots Law by the publication of original documents and by the reprinting and editing of works of sufficient rarity or importance. It was named after Scotland’s greatest jurist whose Institutions of the Law of Scotland was first published in 1681 and is considered the foundation of modern Scots Law.
This Library Includes:
- Official Publications from the Stair Society
- Stair Society Main (Annual) Series Vols. 1-53 (1936-2008)
- Supplementary Series Vols. 1-3
- Featured works on Scottish Legal History
- Links to scholarly articles
Stair Society Main (Annual) Series Vols. 1-53 (1936-2008)
When the Stair Society was founded in 1934, material in Scotland for the legal historian was curiously sparse, curious since there are few countries whose legal inheritance is more varied than that of Scotland. For their first publication in 1935, the Society chose to produce an introductory survey of the sources and literature of Scots Law. This first volume, now out of print, provided the first comprehensive legal-historical bibliography available for the law of Scotland, and by means of short introductory essays, canvassed the sources available.
Browse the Stair Society Main (Annual) Series by Stair Volume or Publication Year, Title, Title Volume, Coverage or Editor, using a custom chart of documents. Sort the chart by any of these parameters.
Stair Society Supplementary Series Vols. 1-3
The Supplementary Series contains the following volumes:
- College of Justice -Supp. Vol I (1990)
- Civil Law Tradition in Scotland – Supp. Vol II (1995)
- Guide to the National Archives of Scotland – Supp. Vol III (1996)
Other Works on Scottish Legal History
This collection also includes a variety of other works related to Scots law and Scottish legal history, including:
- Criminal Trials in Scotland: From A.D. 1488 to A.D. 1624, Embracing the Entire Reigns of James IV. and V., Mary Queen of Scots and James VI
- Lectures on Scotch Legal Antiquities
- Lord Chancellors of Scotland from the Institution of the Office to the Treaty of Union
- Ecclesiastical Records of England, Ireland and Scotland from the Fifth Century Till the Reformation: Being an Epitome of British Councils, the Legatine and Provincial Constitutions and Other Memorials of the Olden Time, with Prolegomena and Notes
Scholarly Law Review Articles on Scottish Legal History
HeinOnline’s Scottish Legal History library contains links to more than 40 scholarly law review articles* related to the study of Scots law and Scottish legal history.
*You must be subscribed to the appropriate HeinOnline Library to access the law review articles.
This Library Will Continue to Grow
This is only the initial release of this library. As we do with other libraries in HeinOnline, we will continue to update and develop this library by adding books, links to scholarly articles and other materials related to Scottish legal history.