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• Title:[Jus feudale. English]
  Jus feudale tribus libris comprehensum / by Thomas Craig of Riccarton ; translated, edited and annotated by Leslie Dodd.
  
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• Author/Creator:Craig, Thomas, Sir, 1538-1608, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Dodd, Leslie, translator, editor.
  
• Published/Created:Edinburgh : The Stair Society, 2017.
  ©2017
  

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  • Call Number: KD834 .C713 2017
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Feudal law--England--Early works to 1800.
  Feudal law--Scotland--Early works to 1800.
  Law--Terminology--Early works to 1800.
  
• Description:volumes ; 27 cm
  
• Series:Stair Society (Series) ; 64.
  
• Summary:"Thomas Craig's Jus feudale was the first comprehensive legal treatise be written in Scotland. As its title indicates, its subject is the feudal law. It is a book concerned chiefly with immovable property, with the ownership and possession of land, at a time when land was by far the most important form of property an individual could own and when the greater part of that property was still held under some form of feudal tenure. For very practical economic reasons, the feudal law was of immense and direct importance for land-owners, tenants, and any one whose finances or business were in any way connected to the holding of heritable property. Craig probably began writing the Jus feudale in the late 1590s and possibly revised it in 1606. The text's importance was recognised practically as soon as it was written and it circulated among lawyers in manuscript form until it was published in 1655. This volume is a translation and an edition of the Jus feudale. The English translation is accompanied by a facing Latin text derived from extant manuscripts and the three printed editions. Readers can compare Craig's Latin text with Dodd's English translation or use this new Latin edition to make their own translations."-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-510).
  Latin text with English translation on facing pages; editorial content in English.
  
• ISBN:9781872517315
  1872517315
  
• Contents:Book 1. On the origin of law
  On the origin and development of the civil law
  On the origin and development of the canon law
  On the origin and development of feudalism
  The refutation of those who ascribe the origin of the feudal law to the ancient law of the Romans
  The feudal law set down in writing
  The arrival of the feudal law in Britain and the law now used in by the English
  The arrival of the feudal law in Scotland and the law now used by the Scots
  On the etymology and definition of a feu
  On the division of the feus
  On the feudal divisions in use in France and England
  Who can give a secular feu
  On ecclesiastical or clerical feus
  Property which can be given in feu
  The king's right over feus and regalia.