1811 Burnett's A Treatise on Various Branches of the Criminal Law of Scotland

A Treatise on Various Branches of the Criminal Law of Scotland

By John Burnett (1764-1810)

Edinburgh; Printed by George Ramsay and Company for Archibald Constable, 1811. First Edition. 4to, full leather binding, pp viii, 612, lxxviii, xv (Includes Appendix and Index to Cases)

CONDITION
A very good copy and complete in contents. The leather binding is good. Endpapers good. All contents present and pages clean throughout. A very good copy of what appears to be a Scottish law scarce book.

BURNETT, JOHN (1764?–1810), Scottish lawyer, was the son of William Burnett, procurator-at-law in Aberdeen, where he was born about 1764. He was admitted advocate at Edinburgh on 10 Dec. 1785. In 1792 he was appointed advocate-depute, and in October 1803 sheriff of Haddingtonshire. In April 1810 he became judge-admiral of Scotland. He was also for some time counsel for the city of Aberdeen. He died on 8 Dec. 1810, while his work on the ‘Criminal Law of Scotland’ was passing through the press. It was published in 1811. Though in certain respects imperfect and misleading, it is a work of great merit, the more especially that it is one of the earliest attempts to form a satisfactory collection of decisions in criminal cases.

(Location : Glass cabinet 3)