Justice and Society in the Highlands of Scotland: Strathspey and the Regality of Grant (c.1690-1748)
Charles Fletcher Brill, (2021) pp.252 Hardback, €112.00; E-book PDF ISBN: 9789004472518
Heritable jurisdictions – the right, held by many Scottish landholders, to preside over private justice courts as part of their charters – were one of the most striking features of medieval and early-modern Scotland. Blamed, largely spuriously, for contributing towards the Jacobite rising of 1745-46, they were abolished in 1747. Until then, they dominated Scotland’s judicial landscape: virtually the entire country was subject to a heritable jurisdiction of some