Scots law (Scottish Gaelic: Lagh na h-Alba) is the legal system of Scotland. It is a hybrid or mixed legal system containing civil law and common law...

A freehold, in common law jurisdictions such as England and Wales, Australia, Canada, Ireland, and twenty states in the United States, is the common mode...

Delict in Scots law is the area of law concerned with those civil wrongs which are actionable before the Scottish courts. The Scots use of the term 'delict'...

Scots property law governs the rules relating to property found in the legal jurisdiction of Scotland. As a hybrid legal system with both common law and...

The importance of corroboration is unique to Scots criminal law. A long-standing feature of Scots law, the requirement for corroborating evidence means...

A disposition in Scots law is a formal deed transferring ownership of corporeal heritable property. It acts as the conveyancing stage as the second of...

Confidentiality and Privacy in Scots Law, (W. Green, 2010), at para.1.02 Elspeth C. Reid, Personality, Confidentiality and Privacy in Scots Law, (W. Green, 2010),...

Scots contract law governs the rules of contract in Scotland. Contract is created by bilateral agreement and should be distinguished from a unilateral...

The history of Scots law traces the development of Scots law from its early beginnings as a number of different custom systems among Scotland's early...

Precognition in Scots law is the practice of precognoscing a witness, that is the taking of a factual statement from witnesses by both prosecution and...

Possession in Scots law occurs when an individual physically holds property with the intent to use it. Possession is traditionally viewed as a state of...

historical reasons: English law, Scots law, Northern Ireland law, and, since 2007, calls for a fourth type, that of purely Welsh law as a result of Welsh devolution...

based on Roman Law principles. Tort law is referred to as the law of delict in Scots and Roman Dutch law, and resembles tort law in common law jurisdictions...

classification of the law of persons found in Roman law. The word 'person' is usually taken to mean humans. However, in Scots law and in many other jurisdictions...

Land registration in Scots law is a system of public registration of land, and associated real rights. Scotland has one of the oldest systems of land...

Scots Law. Scots contract law is related to Roman Dutch contract law owing to the influence of Dutch and Flemish merchants and scholarship on Scots jurisprudence...

In Scots law, an interdict is a court order to stop someone from breaching someone else's rights. They can be issued by the Court of Session or a Sheriff...

Diligence is a term in Scots Law with no single definition, but is commonly used to describe debt collection and debt recovery proceedings against a debtor...

Decisions or at other early reports will show how frequently in the older Scots law questions respecting the rights, remedies and liabilities of individuals...

as Ulster Scots). Most commonly spoken in the Scottish Lowlands, Northern Isles, and northern Ulster, it is sometimes called Lowland Scots to distinguish...

get married under Scots law. The Marriage Act 1753 also did not apply to Britain's overseas colonies of the time and so common-law marriages continued...

The Kingdom of Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Rìoghachd na h-Alba; Scots: Kinrick o Scotland, Norn: Kongungdum Skotland) was a sovereign state in northwest...

Prescription in Scots law allows the creation or extinction of personal and real rights. There are two forms of prescription: (1) positive prescription...

occupation is a method of original acquisition of property in Scots law. It derives from the Roman law concept of the same name. Occupatio allows an occupier...

Scotland retains Scots Law, its own unique legal system, based on Roman law, which combines features of both civil law and common law. The terms of union...

Reformed Christianity portal The Scots Confession (also called the Scots Confession of 1560) is a Confession of Faith written in 1560 by six leaders of...

Indonesian-occupied East Timor. It also heavily influenced Scots law. It also had some minor impact on the laws of the American state of New York, especially in...

The Scots Law Times is a commercially published law reports service and law magazine for Scotland, publishing over 1400 pages of reports each year. Published...

Scots Criminal Law. Pearson Longman. 2003. Chapter 10. Page 157 et seq. R A A McCall Smith and David Sheldon. "Sexual Offences". Scots Criminal Law....

regalia are the rights falling to the Crown (ie: The King/Queen of Scots) in Scots Property law. The term derives from Latin inter (among) and regalia (things...