Contract Before the Enlightenment: The Ideas of James Dalrymple, Viscount Stair, 1619-1695

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Dr Stephen Bogle (Senior Lecturer in Private Law, Senior Lecturer in Private Law, University of Glasgow)

Contract Before the Enlightenment

The Ideas of James Dalrymple, Viscount Stair, 1619-1695

Dr Stephen Bogle (Senior Lecturer in Private Law, Senior Lecturer in Private Law, University of Glasgow)

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Oxford University Press
15 June 2023

European history; History of ideas; Legal history; Contract law

Series: Oxford Legal History

Contract Before the Enlightenment represents a fresh investigation of what was then a ground-breaking approach to the law of contract written by James Dalrymple, Viscount Stair (1619-1695), lauded by some as the founding father of Scots law.

As a judge and public figure, Stair was at the forefront of both political and legal developments in Scotland from the 1640s until he died in 1695. This study explores the development and reception of his ideas relating to the law of contract on the eve of the Scottish Enlightenment. It is here that Stair's legal legacy is most evident, and where the imprint of Calvinism, Aristotelianism, and Protestant natural law can be found within Scottish legal thought. In his legal treatise, the Institutions of Law of Scotland you find a sophisticated, innovative, and novel synthesis of Roman law with Stair's own Calvinist variant of a Protestant natural law theory. Yet it is also possible to find, once the theistic premises of Stair's natural law theory are dropped, the beginnings of a form of Scottish moral philosophy that rose to prominence in the eighteenth century. Undoubtedly, Stair is not only a key figure within Scottish legal history but also significant to how we understand the transition of Scottish intellectual life from the execution of Charles I to the emergence of the Scottish Enlightenment.

By: Dr Stephen Bogle (Senior Lecturer in Private Law Senior Lecturer in Private Law University of Glasgow)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 606g
ISBN: 9780192884961
ISBN 10: 0192884964
Series: Oxford Legal History
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 15 June 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Stephen Bogle is a Senior Lecturer in Private Law at the University of Glasgow. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 2005 with an MA (Mental Philosophy) before commencing his LLB at the University of Strathclyde (2007). After qualifying as a solicitor in Scotland (2010), he returned to the University of Edinburgh to do both his LLM by Research (2012) and PhD (2016).

Reviews for Contract Before the Enlightenment: The Ideas of James Dalrymple, Viscount Stair, 1619-1695

It provides a fascinating account of the ideas that created Scotland's contract law. No doubt it will be a key text in that study for years to come. * Max D Winthrop, The Gazette * The great strength of this book is Bogle's attention to the complex philosophical and theological motivations underlying Stair's approach to contract law. * Karie Schultz, Scottish Historical Review *