Lawyers’ letters as an historical source

Finlay, J. (2023) Lawyers’ letters as an historical source. Juridical Review, 2023(1), pp. 48-69.

Abstract

Lawyers’ letter books are an interesting but hardly used source of historical information about legal practice but much else besides. This article is the first to study a sample of these books, drawn from across Scotland, and seeks to analyse what they can tell us about the everyday functioning of the legal profession of the period.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Finlay, Professor John
• Authors: Finlay, J.
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > School of Law
• Journal Name: Juridical Review
• Publisher: Sweet and Maxwell
• ISSN: 0022-6785
• Published Online: 28 March 2023
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2023 Sweet and Maxwell
• First Published: First published in Juridical Review 2023(1): 48-69
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced in accordance with the publisher copyright policy