Roman Law, Scots Law and Legal History: Selected Essays

Author: William Gordon
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 9781399571890

Published In: October 2026
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Hardback Edition ISBN: 9780748625161

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A selection of key articles published by W. M. Gordon in the course of his career.

W. M. Gordon, who retired from the Douglas Chair of Civil Law at the University of Glasgow in 1999, is well known for his distinguished contribution to Roman law, legal history and land law. He is the author of several books in these subject areas, but it is a mark of his international eminence that much of his prolific output has been published in a wide variety of journals and essay collections outside, as well as within, the UK. This important collection draws together in an accessible format much of his most important writing and, as such, will be in indispensable purchase for all those interested in these core areas of legal scholarship.

This important collection draws together much of Gordon's most important writing and, as such, will be an indispensable purchase for all those interested in these core areas of legal scholarship.

Preface

Acknowledgements

ROMAN LAW:

Constitutum Possessorium

Acquisition of Ownership by tradition and Acquisition of Possession

Dating the Lex Aquilla

The Actio de Posito Reconsidered

Agency and Roman Law

Observations on "Depositum Irregulare"

The Importance of the iusta causa of tradition

ROMAN LAW AND SCOTS LAW:

Roman and Scots Law - the Conditiones si sine Liberis Decesserit