The Edinburgh University almanack. MDCCCXXXIII.

Date:
1833
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Credit: The Edinburgh University almanack. MDCCCXXXIII. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and uses, and their connected applications in the various exigencies of Professional Practice. The Course consists of Three main Divisions, un- der which are arranged systematically the numerous subdivisions and sections that respectively belong to them. The First Division, which is introductory to the other two, comprehends the Legal Requisites and the Solemni- ties of Deeds; and generally, the whole of those inquiries which concern matters common to all Formal Writings, or relating to their general nature and effects. The Second Division, which is greatly more extensive, includes all those Legal Writings which are employed in the constitution, transmission, enforcement, .and extinction of that description of Rights designated in the Law of Scot- land as Personal or Moveable Rights. It consequently em- braces the Forms of Bills, of Bonds, and of Contracts, and of the regular modes of transferring, enforcing, and dis- charging them; of Conveyances of Moveables, properly so called; and of Marriage and Testamentary Settlements and Bequests of Personal Property. The Third, and by far the most extensive as well as im- portant Division, is devoted to the writings employed in the constitution and transmission, and in the uses, limita- tions, and settlements of those more eminent Rights which relate to Land and its adjuncts, and such other things as the Law of Scotland views as the subjects of Rights deno- minated Heritable. Those mixed forms which create or concern rights of both descriptions, are also included in this division. It embraces, in short, the whole of those nu- merous and complex forms, which originated in, or are con- nected with, the Feudal Law, as received in Scotland; and they are examined in an order calculated to facilitate the knowledge of them, to illustrate their connexions and dependencies, and to show the variations required in apply- ing them to their respective purposes.