Manuscript Notes from David Hume's Lectures on Scots Law at the University of Edinburgh
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of four volumes (numbered 1, 2, 5 and 6) with spine-labels reading "Hume's Lectures on the Scots Law". Topics include marriage, contracts, teinds, tack, adjudication, and succession in heritage. There are near-contemporary ownership inscriptions (Alex Orrock, Newton of Wemyss) to front pastedown of each volume.
Vol. 1 and vol. 6 have numerous additional pages of later notes on agriculture and chemistry at the rear, and extracts from A. W. Kinglake's novel Eothen, signed W. W. Orrock and dated 1848.
Vols 2 and 5 have title-pages; the former reading "Notes of Mr Hume's Lectures of the Scots Law ... taken by George Peat"; and the latter "Lectures upon the Scots Law delivered by David Hume Esq. 1790 taken by George Peat".
Dates
- Creation: 1790
Creator
- Peat, George, fl 1790 (Law student) (Author, Person)
Language of Materials
English
Physical Description
Four volumes, 4to, contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards, spine-labels reading "Hume's Lectures on the Scots Law" (volumes numbered 1, 2, 5, and 6), 174 pp., 162-314 ff., 624-777 ff., 778-837 ff. Bindings worn; boards detached from vol. 1; vol. 2 title-page has juvenile pencil markings.
Conditions Governing Access
Open. Please contact the repository for details.
Extent
4 Volumes
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased in September 2022. Accession no. SC-Acc-2022-0089.
Physical Description
Four volumes, 4to, contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards, spine-labels reading "Hume's Lectures on the Scots Law" (volumes numbered 1, 2, 5, and 6), 174 pp., 162-314 ff., 624-777 ff., 778-837 ff. Bindings worn; boards detached from vol. 1; vol. 2 title-page has juvenile pencil markings.
Processing Information
Catalogued by Aline Brodin in December 2022, using information supplied by the seller.
Creator
- Peat, George, fl 1790 (Law student) (Author, Person)
Subject
- Hume, David, 1757-1838 (judge, Baron of the Scottish Exchequer) (Presenter, Person)
Source
- Orrock, Alex (former owner of student lecture notes dated 1790) (Former owner, Person)
- Orrock, W W (former owner of student lecture notes dated 1790) (Former owner, Person)
- Title
- Manuscript Notes from David Hume's Lectures on Scots Law at the University of Edinburgh, 1790
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository
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