Notes taken by David Cleghorn, Writer to the Signet, of lectures on Scots Law delivered by David Hume at Edinburgh University.

Series

Identifier: Adv.MSS.7.2.4-7.2.17

Staff Only

Dates

Creation: 1797-1798.

Extent

0.00 Linear metres (14 volumes. Quarto.)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Custodial History

The notes were presented to the Advocates` Library in 1856 by Thomas Cleghorn, Sheriff of Argyll.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Presented, 1925, by the Faculty of Advocates to the nation on the foundation of the National Library of Scotland.

Related Materials

For David Hume`s manuscript of his lectures see Adv.MSS.81.6.1-81.6.41. For another set of student`s notes see Adv.MS.25.6.10.

Bibliography

The main differences from the Stair Society edition, which gives the final version of the lectures, are due to Hume`s later revisions. Apart from that:

Part II, Chapters XIV-XVI appear after Chapter VIII;

the chapter on Insurance (Adv.MS.81.6.12) is omitted;

the chapter on teinds (Adv.MS.81.6.31) appears after Part IV, Chapter IX; and,

the chapter on Bankruptcy (Adv.MS.81.6.32, folio 89) appears at the end of Part IV.
For cases where David Cleghorn`s notes fill gaps in Hume`s manuscript, see the prefaces to the Stair Society edition.
References to the corresponding parts of Hume`s manuscript are included in the appended records of Cleghorn`s notes. The catalogue of Hume`s manuscript gives full details of contents and references to the Stair Society edition.