particular expertise in the law of property and conveyancing, editing the seven volume standard style book of the day, (with the Professor of Scots Law in the University of Edinburgh, Sir John Rankine KC and the Professor of Conveyancing, John Little Mounsey) and writing much on the history of land registration. Murray considered the Scottish system to be without rival. He firmly believed that the General Register of Sasines was superior to the so-called Torrens system of land registration being promoted elsewhere in the English-speaking world: Many of the advocates of registration of title have a very imperfect knowledge of the system of registration which exists. The Register of Sasines is treated by them as a mere record of conveyances. That is not so. It is truly far more of a record of title than many of the systems which so describe themselves. The Register is with us the foundation of all titles to land, and more thoroughly protects the rights of owners and creditors than any of the systems which are set against it. It has a flexibility and scope which none of them possess… In England and the Australian colonies, trusts cannot appear on the Register. In Scotland they can, without the slightest inconvenience to anyone, and do appear, with the greatest advantage to all concerned. Registration is the basis of prescription. No burden can be imposed on land, no restriction placed upon its use that does not appear on the Register. In Scotland there can be no secret deeds, no concealed encumbrances which can affect a transfer of land.Murray had a leading role in the legal aftermath of the collapse of the City of Glasgow Bank. The Directors were indicted for fraud and Murray represented Lewis Potter. Potter received 18 months imprisonment. Murray's involvement in the bank's affairs, however, was most marked by his task of winging up the New Zealand and Australian Land Company, of which Potter had been a director, and which owned 2 million acres of land in Australia and New Zealand. Death Murray died on 2 October 1928, aged 86, at his home Moorepark in Cardross. He had been severely ill in 1927, but recovered and returned to work at Maclay, Murray and Spens. However, he fell ill in August on the day after funeral of his business partner, Mr Spens, and had been confined to his home until his death. References Sylvia