Tom Idle and Francis Goodchild, once colleagues meet at a session of the court of justice; Idle is a pleading defendant while Goodchild wearing the furred robe and chain of an alderman is the acting magistrate. Engraving by Thomas Cook after William Hogarth.

A sixteenth-century iron arm: two figures, including a cross-section. Line engraving by J. Skelton after S.R. Meyrick.

William Burke (centre), Dr Alexander Monro III (top left), William Robertson (top right), Thomas Beveridge (lower left), Dr Robert Knox (lower right) Silhouettes, c. 1830.

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“It wasn’t an accident that I came to you”

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Contract, and articles of association, and regulations of the Society of Solicitors of the Court of Session and other Supreme Courts of Scotland.

Memoirs of the life of the late Right Honourable Duncan Forbes, Esq; of Culloden; Lord-President of the Court of Session in Scotland.

A narrative of a remarkable breach of trust committed by a nobleman, five Judges, and several Advocates of The Court of Session in Scotland.

Observations on the jurisprudence of the Court of Session in Scotland; wherein some improprieties in the present mode of procedure are pointed out, and amendments submitted.

Reflexions on the sources of incredulity with regard to religion. By the Right Honourable Duncan Forbes of Culloden, late Lord President of the Court of Session in Scotland.

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“It wasn’t an accident that I came to you”

“I’ve never talked to anybody about this before”

Social isolation and the search for sanctuary

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Contract, and articles of association, and regulations of the Society of Solicitors of the Court of Session and other Supreme Courts of Scotland.

Memoirs of the life of the late Right Honourable Duncan Forbes, Esq; of Culloden; Lord-President of the Court of Session in Scotland.

A narrative of a remarkable breach of trust committed by a nobleman, five Judges, and several Advocates of The Court of Session in Scotland.

Observations on the jurisprudence of the Court of Session in Scotland; wherein some improprieties in the present mode of procedure are pointed out, and amendments submitted.

Reflexions on the sources of incredulity with regard to religion. By the Right Honourable Duncan Forbes of Culloden, late Lord President of the Court of Session in Scotland.

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Stories

“It wasn’t an accident that I came to you”

“I’ve never talked to anybody about this before”

Social isolation and the search for sanctuary

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Catalogue

Contract, and articles of association, and regulations of the Society of Solicitors of the Court of Session and other Supreme Courts of Scotland.

Memoirs of the life of the late Right Honourable Duncan Forbes, Esq; of Culloden; Lord-President of the Court of Session in Scotland.

A narrative of a remarkable breach of trust committed by a nobleman, five Judges, and several Advocates of The Court of Session in Scotland.

Observations on the jurisprudence of the Court of Session in Scotland; wherein some improprieties in the present mode of procedure are pointed out, and amendments submitted.

Reflexions on the sources of incredulity with regard to religion. By the Right Honourable Duncan Forbes of Culloden, late Lord President of the Court of Session in Scotland.