Table Of ContentEdinburgh Law Essentials
Roman Law EssEntiaLs
EDINBURGH LAW ESSENTIALS
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Scottish Administrative Law Essentials Scottish Legal System Essentials
Jean McFadden and Dale McFadzean Bryan Clark and Gerard Keegan
Medical Law Essentials Succession Law Essentials
Murray Earle Frankie McCarthy
Property Law Essentials Commercial Law Essentials
Duncan Spiers Malcolm Combe
European Law Essentials Revenue Law Essentials
Stephanie Switzer William Craig
Intellectual Property Law Essentials Private International Law
Duncan Spiers David Hill
Media Law Essentials Scottish Family Law
Douglas Maule and Zhongdong Niu Kenneth McK. Norrie
International Law Essentials Scottish Contract Law Essentials
John Grant Tikus Little
Employment Law Essentials Public Law Essentials
Jenifer Ross Jean McFadden and Dale McFadzean
Human Rights Law Essentials Scottish Evidence Law Essentials
Valerie Finch and John McGroarty James Chalmers
Planning Law Essentials Legal Method Essentials for Scots Law
Anne-Michelle Slater Dale McFadzean and Lynn Allardyce
Irvine
Company Law Essentials
Josephine Bisacre and Claire Delict Essentials
McFadzean Francis McManus
Jurisprudence Essentials Scottish Criminal Law Essentials
Duncan Spiers Claire McDiarmid
Trusts Law Essentials Roman Law Essentials
John Finlay Craig Anderson
Contract Law Essential Cases
Tikus Little
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Edinburgh Law Essentials
Roman Law EssEntiaLs
second edition
Craig anderson, LL.B., Ph.D.
Lecturer in Law, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen
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Contents
Table of Cases ...................................................................................... vii
Table of Statutes .................................................................................... ix
Note on the Citation of Roman Sources .................................................... xi
1 Historical Introduction ................................................................. 1
2 Sources and Development of Roman Law .................................. 13
3 The Law of Persons .................................................................... 25
4 The Law of Things: Rights in Property ...................................... 37
5 The Law of Things: Acquisition of Ownership ........................... 51
6 The Law of Things: Succession .................................................. 63
7 The Law of Things: Contracts .................................................... 73
8 The Law of Things: Delicts ........................................................ 85
9 The Law of Things: Other Obligations ....................................... 95
10 The Law of Actions .................................................................. 101
11 The Reception of Roman Law ................................................ 111
Index ................................................................................................ 123
table of Cases
Burnett’s Tr v Grainger 2004 SC (HL) 19 .......................................... 48
Compugraphics International Ltd v Nikolic 2011 SLT 955 ................ 49
Douglas v Douglas (1876) 4 R 105 .................................................... 71
Drake v Dow 2006 SCLR 456 ........................................................ 100
Duncan v MFV Marigold Pd 145 2006 SLT 975 ................................ 84
Gibbs v Ruxton 2000 JC 258; 2000 SLT 310 ................................... 109
Gow v Lord Advocate 1993 SLT 275 ................................................. 36
International Banking Corp v Ferguson, Shaw & Sons 1909
2 SLT 377 ..................................................................................... 60
Kolbin & Sons v Kinnear & Co 1930 SC 724 .................................... 99
MacDonald v Aberdeenshire Council [2013] CSOH 83,
2013 SLT 2 ................................................................................... 94
McDyer v Celtic Football and Athletic Co Ltd 2000 SC 379 ........... 100
Mackenzie v Mackenzie’s Trs 1916 1 SLT 349 .................................... 35
Marjandi Ltd v Bon Accord Glass Ltd (unreported), Aberdeen
Sheriff Court, 15 October 2007 .................................................... 84
Martin v McGuiness 2003 SLT 1424 .................................................. 93
Milligan v Ross 1994 SCLR 430 ....................................................... 61
Moncrieff v Jamieson 2008 SC (HL) 1 ............................................... 48
Morgan Guaranty Trust Co of New York v Lothian Regional
Council 1995 SC 151 .................................................................. 100
Shields v Donnelly 2000 JC 46 ........................................................ 110
Shilliday v Smith 1998 SC 725 ......................................................... 100
Sloans Dairies Ltd v Glasgow Corp 1977 SC 223 ............................... 84
Stevens v Yorkhill NHS Trust 2006 SLT 889 ...................................... 94
Stewart’s Exrx v London, Midland & Scottish Rly Co 1954
SC (HL) 19 ................................................................................... 94
Stronach’s Exrs v Robertson 2002 SC 540 ......................................... 48
Sutter v Aberdeen Arctic Co (1861) 23 D 465 ................................... 60
X v Y 1921 1 SLT 79 ........................................................................ 36
Zahnrad Fabrik Passau GmbH v Terex Ltd 1985 SC 364 .................... 61
table of statutes
1449 Leases Act ............................................................................... 116
1939 Marriage (Scotland) Act ...................................................... 35, 36
1973 Prescription and Limitation (Scotland) Act ................................ 57
1979 Sale of Goods Act ..................................................................... 52
1998 Scotland Act s 126(4) ................................................................ 16
2006 Family Law (Scotland) Act ........................................................ 36
