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Student lecture notes

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Notes taken down by students

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Manuscript Notes from David Hume's Lectures on Scots Law at the University of Edinburgh

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2075
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...
Dates: 1790

Notes of lectures on Scots Law given by David Hume, Baron of the Exchequer

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1957
Scope and Contents

Two notebooks containing notes of lectures on Scots law, 1808-1809, given by David Hume, Baron of the Exchequer (Scotland). Notes taken down by person unknown.

Dates: 1808-1809

Notes of lectures on Scots Law given by David Hume, Baron of the Exchequer

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1958
Scope and Contents

One notebook containing notes entitled 'Notes of lectures on the law of Scotland, from 'Marriage' to 'General Service', 1810-1811. Lectures given by David Hume, Baron of the Exchequer (Scotland), at the University of Edinburgh. Notes taken down by person unknown.

Dates: 1810-1811

Three volumes of manuscript student notes on lectures presented by David Hume

 Collection — Box CLX-A-1706
Identifier: Coll-2025
Content Description

Three volumes of student manuscript notes written by unidentified students in Edinburgh, ca 1815-1819, on David Hume's lectures. The volumes do not have main titles, but have section headings throughout, subjects include: feudal rights; charter; instrument of sasine; state of vassal's titles, etc.

Dates: c 1815-1819

Volume of manuscript notes on David Hume's lectures on Scots Law at Edinburgh, 1811

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/23-0035
Scope and Contents This is a volume entitled "Notes of Hume's Lecture's", containing manuscript notes on David Hume's lectures on Scots law at Edinburgh. Dated 1811, taken down by an unknown student.Headings include: "Introduction" (ff. 1-9), "Of marriage" (ff. 9-70), "Relation between Parent & Child" (ff. 70-101), "Of Relation between Minors and their Tutors and Curators" (ff. 102-157, including a section on "Curators to...
Dates: 1811