Finlay, John <br/><br/>
The community of the College of Justice :  Edinburgh and the Court of Session, 1687-1808 / 
John Finlay. 
 - Edinburgh :  Edinburgh University Press,  2012. 
 - 1 online resource (viii, 295 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
<br/><br/> A unique institution in a unique jurisdiction: an institutional history of Scotland's eighteenth-century legal community. How important can a court and its members be in influencing the development of a country? In Scotland's case, the answer is surprising. The remarkable metamorphosis of eighteenth-century Edinburgh, from crisis conditions in the 1690s through the Union to the intellectual heights of Enlightenment and the development of the spectacular New Town, owed a great deal to those who spent their professional lives working in the Court of Session as members of the unique institution kn.  Acknowledgements; abbreviations and references; 1 introduction; 2 the college and the urban community; 3 the college and urban administration; 4 the lords of session; 5 advocates; 6 writers to the signet; 7 the working chambers of the college; 8 subordinate and minor office-holders in the college; 9 conclusion; appendix 1; appendix 2; appendix 3; bibliography; index of subjects; index of persons; index of judicial titles 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780748645787 9780748676545 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Scotland<br/>Scotland
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Justice, Administration of--History.--Scotland.<br/>Civil procedure--History.--Scotland.<br/>LAW--Legal History<br/>LAW--Courts<br/>Justice, Administration of<br/>Civil procedure<br/>Intellectual life
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Edinburgh (Scotland)--Intellectual life--17th century<br/>Edinburgh (Scotland)--Intellectual life--18th century.<br/>Edinburgh (Scotland)--Intellectual life--19th century.<br/>Scotland<br/>Scotland--Edinburgh