Historical Law-Tracts by Henry Home Lord Kames about property rights, contracts and evidence Vintage Lawyer Gift

Lord Kames was trying to change how people understood law as legal reform. Rather than treating law as a collection of rules to memorize, he argued that laws should be studied historically by asking how and why legal customs developed as societies changed. In Historical Law-Tracts, he compares Roman, English, and Scottish law and discusses subjects such as property, contracts, evidence, inheritance, courts, and debt. This work is a part of the Scottish Enlightenment. Kames was a prominent Scottish judge and intellectual associated with the same remarkable period that produced thinkers such as David Hume and Adam Smith.

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