Digest of House of Lords Cases: Decided on Appeal from Scotland, 1709 to 1864, With Glossary of Scottish Law Terms

Digest Of House Of Lords Cases: Decided On Appeal From Scotland, 1709 To 1864, With Glossary Of Scottish Law Terms by John Boyd Kinnear is a dense Scottish-law reference digest published in 1865 that compiles House of Lords decisions on appeal from Scotland, spanning 1709–1864, with cross-references and a glossary of Scottish legal terms. The work in its Part 1 (of 4) presents methodical topics and dense case citations across civil and feudal law, covering procedure, property, deathbed dispositions, entail, recording, prescription, and related remedies. It emphasizes the structure of the pursuer/defender roles, pleadings, proof, reclaiming and remitting on appeal, and the use of commissions for proof, while providing extensive indices and endnotes (errata, abbreviations) that aid researchers. Overall, it serves as a metadata-tagging reference for Scotland’s civil-law doctrines across centuries, including entail and feudal law, liferent, recording, and cross-border contractual issues.