Remarks on the Constitution and Procedure of the Scottish Courts of Law

James Glassford

Verlag: Archibald Constable and Company, Edinburgh, 1812

Beschreibung

The vanishingly scarce first edition of the first published work by Scottish legal writer James Glassford. The vanishingly scarce first edition of this legal work.Glassford discusses the imperfections of the Scottish procedural system, and examines the constitution of the courts, the order and rules of judicial procedure, and provides 'notices of judicial proceedings in the early Scottish Parliaments'.In 1815, Glassford was appointed to inquire into the duties and emoluments of the clerks and other officers of the courts of justice in Scotland.With the armorial bookplate of the Kinnaird peerage to the front pastedown, with his motto: 'patitur qui vincit'.With ten pages of advertisements to the start of the work, and ten to the rear.Retaining the half title. In the publisher's original paper covered boards. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with joints starting and boards firmly held. Losses of paper to back strip, with paper surrounding spine label detaching. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 882F17

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Remarks on the Constitution and Procedure of...

Verlag: Archibald Constable and Company, Edinburgh

Erscheinungsdatum: 1812

Einband: Hardback

Illustrator: None

Zustand: Good

Auflage: First edition.

Art des Buches: book