Full Description
This book brings together experts in Norwegian and Scottish legal, economic and political history to explore significant points of contact and similarities in the ways in which the laws of Scotland and Norway developed. It breaks new ground, considering Scots law in terms of its historical interactions and similarities with another national legal system, rather than in terms of its place at the intersection between the common law and the civilian traditions. This definite reference work will form the basis of future studies in comparative legal history, and comparative law more generally, in relation to Scotland and Norway.
Contents
Introduction, Andrew R C Simpson and Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde
Section One: the medieval period, ca.1200-ca.1500
1. The Treaty of Perth: Union of the realm and the king's law, Erik Opsahl
2. The Treaty of Perth: Union of the realm and the laws of the kingdom, Dauvit Broun
3. Law and Administrative Change in Norway, Twelfth-Fourteenth Centuries, Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde
4. Law and Administrative Change in Scotland, Twelfth-Fourteenth Centuries, Alice Taylor
5. Urban Legal Procedure in Fourteenth Century Norway, Miriam Jensen Tveit
6. Procedures of the Scottish Common Law in a Medieval Town: A fresh look at the 1317 court roll of Aberdeen, Andrew R C Simpson
Section Two: the early modern period, ca 1500-ca 1800
7. War and Peace: Scottish-Norwegian relations in the early modern period (ca 1520-1707), Steve Murdoch
8. Traders and Immigrants: A Norwegian perspective on Scottish-Norwegian economic relations from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century, Per G Norseng
9. Norm and Fact: Timber trade in early modern western Norway, Sören Koch
10. The Law and Economy of Shipwreck in Scotland during the Sixteenth Century, J D Ford
