{"id":152,"date":"2013-09-03T16:00:46","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T15:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/?p=152"},"modified":"2018-06-13T09:19:15","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T08:19:15","slug":"john-erskine-1695-1768-of-carnock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/2013\/09\/03\/john-erskine-1695-1768-of-carnock\/","title":{"rendered":"John Erskine (1695-1768), of Carnock"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Erskine<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Chair of Scots Law, Edinburgh, 1737-1765<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Teaching<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Principles of the Law of Scotland<\/em> combines Justinian\u2019s Institute with Pufendorf\u2019s natural law; \u2018it was the introduction of generations of Scots lawyers to their legal system\u2019 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxforddnb.com\/view\/article\/8869\">ODNB<\/a>*)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Publications, Manuscripts, and other Resources<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8216;Notes on lectures delivered by Erskine (1740): Sess. 1740-1&#8217; [Apparently taken by Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Bart of Minto], National Library of Scotland MS 3862<\/li>\n<li><em>Principles of the law of Scotland: in the order of Sir George Mackenzie&#8217;s institutions of that law<\/em> (1754); 7th edn (1791) available from <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/download\/The_principles_of_the_law_of_Scotland_in.pdf?id=QtlKAQAAIAAJ&amp;output=pdf&amp;sig=ACfU3U3p7bCoC93t5zHFjMHrsce-6DBDzQ\">Google Books<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>*For references, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/category\/bibliography\/\">Site Bibliography<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Erskine Chair of Scots Law, Edinburgh, 1737-1765 Teaching Principles of the Law of Scotland combines Justinian\u2019s Institute with Pufendorf\u2019s natural law; \u2018it was the introduction of generations of Scots lawyers to their legal system\u2019 (ODNB*) Publications, Manuscripts, and other Resources &#8216;Notes on lectures delivered by Erskine (1740): Sess. 1740-1&#8217; [Apparently taken by Sir Gilbert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,52],"tags":[59,54],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1227,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/1227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}