Anglo-Saxon Law and Scots Law
Patrick Wormald
Patrick Wormald used legal material buried deep in volume i of the Acts Parliaments Scotland to argue for a comparatively maximalist view early Scottish royal government. The paper compares this two Old English codes show that there existed structures social organisation similar Anglo-Saxon England and comparable level control over crime by eleventh century. model strong judicial regime kingdom, put forward fully Making Law, suggests kingdom Scots could have been inspired (or followed parallel trajectory to) its neighbour government's assumption rights amendment previously controlled kin-groups. influence on constitutional development can therefore be seen tenth centuries as much it twelfth thirteenth centuries. also methods examining effectively clears way further study neglected corpus evidence.
The Scottish Historical Review