Jurisprudence

Article concerning the legal aspects of mental illness, reprinted from 'The British Encyclopaedia of Medical Practice', 2nd Edition, Vol 8, published in 1951.

Article on the treatment of criminal conduct.

Documents involved in the court case in relation to the action of the Corporation of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum against two of Edinburgh’s Inspectors of Poor. Bound Volume of documents.

Correspondence between the Scottish Health Service Central Legal Office and Royal Edinburgh Hospital. Originally two files containing mostly staff claims. Only patient claims have been retained.

Joint Print for the Parties in Actions, the Corporation of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the Insane against two Inspectors of the Poor in Edinburgh.

The collection consists of volumes of lectures on jurisprudence and civil law, by Thomas Bever, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, 1772-1774.

Legal documents including deeds, bonds and letters relating to the Hospital.

The Lorimer papers consist of: manuscript material on Institutes of law; manuscript material and proofs for The institutes of the law of nations; lectures and University papers; biographical material compiled from Lorimer's family history; articles, offprints and correspondence; pamphlets on the Eastern Question; and, printed papers and cuttings. There are bound volumes containing lectures, notes and printed matter.

An incomplete copy of a well-known work on Ḥanafī law by Shaykh Burhān al-Dīn ‘Alī b. Abī Bakr al-Marghīnānī (d. 593 A.H., 1197 C.E.).

A short treatise on advice to the people on the principles of religion by al-Imām Muḥammad b. Muḥammad al-Ghazālī, entitled "Ḥujjat al-Islām Zayn al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī'" (d. 505 A.H., 1111 C.E.).