The Edinburgh University almanack. MDCCCXXXIII.

Date:
1833
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    LAW OF SCOTLAND. This Class meets at 3 o’clock. Under this Professorship is comprehended the whole Jurisprudence of Scotland, Civil and Cri- minal. The Criminal Law has hitherto been taught only in an occasional course ; the chief subject of study being the theory and practice of the Law of Scotland in matters of civil right. The present Professor devotes some part of the course (but ne- cessarily very much circumscribed) to the general principles of Constitutional and Criminal Law. I. The first branch of the Lectures on matters of Civil right, comprehends the doctrine of Obligations and Con- tracts ; or the constitution, effects, and extinction of those rights which arise from obligations unilateral or mutual. After explaining and illustrating the general principles of conventional obligations, with the several contracts of sale, hiring, loan, pledge, deposite and mandate, the Professor enters into a full commentary on mercantile and maritime contracts ; and concludes this part of the Course with an inquiry concerning those obligations which are indepen- dent of convention, and an explanation of the modes of extinguishing or discharging obligations, whether unilateral or mutual. II. In the second branch of the Course, the right of Ownership and Laws of Property are considered. The Law of Property in Land includes a view of the Feudal System according to which this part of Scottish prac- tice is still regulated; with a commentary on the titles to land by Charter and Sasine, and on the Scottish system