Some Old Scots Judges - Anecdotes and Impressions

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Description
While this volume treats of a group of Scots judges who flourished in the latter half of the eighteenth century, and the earlier decades of the nineteenth, it is primarily addressed, not to the man of law, but to the general reader. These pages are in nowise an attempt to explicate or estimate judicial character from a legal standpoint. Naturally in a series of biographical portraits such as are here presented, the position of Kames, Monboddo, and the rest as lawyers, cannot altogether be ignored; but what little has been said merely recapitulates in the most general terms the opinion of competent authorities.My main object lies in quite another direction, i.e. to present an adequate picture, by means of anecdotes and contemporary testimony, of the personalities of certain old Scots judges who are remembered more by their debt to adventi- tious circumstance than by their judicial eminence. The twelve senators here portrayed widely differed in intellectual and moral worth, but they had two things in common-they were all Scotsmen, and they were all men of marked individuality
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Table of Contents
I. LORD KAMES (1696-1782)
II. LORD MONBODDO (1714-1799)
III. LORD MONBODDO (continued)
IV. LORD GARDENSTONE (1721-1793)
V. LORD BRAXFIELD (1722-1799)
VI. LORD HAILES (1726-1792)
VII. LORD ESKGROVE (1729 ?-1804)
VIII. LORD BALMUTO (1742-1824)
IX. LORD NEWTON (1747-1811)
X. LORD HERMAND (1743 ?-1827)
XI. LORD ELDIN (1757-1882).
XII. LORD JEFFREY (1773-1850)
XIII. LORD COCKBURN (1779-1854)
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Author Details
W. Forbes Gray