Scotland's Foreshore: Public Rights, Private Rights and the Crown 1840-2017

ISBN-13: 9781474436915 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 272 str.

John Macaskill

Opis

Scotland's Foreshore' tells the story of the battle that took place during the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth century between the Crown and private proprietors over the ownership of the foreshore.

Spis treści

Preface and Acknowledgments; Glossary of Legal Terms; Chapter 1 - ‘A matter of prolonged controversy in Scotland’; Chapter 2 - ‘Illegal encroachments of the Crown on the rights of proprietors’; Chapter 3 - ‘A strange piece of legislation’ and ‘a Jesuitical paper’; Chapter 4 - ‘One of the most prominent and assertive members’; Chapter 5 - ‘A more favourable case to adopt could scarcely be obtained’; Chapter 6 - ‘What remains in the Crown cannot be of great extent’; Chapter 7 - ‘The proposals amount to the most bare-faced confiscation’; Chapter 8 - ‘The Argyll influence in Tiree is paramount’; Chapter 9 - ‘A genuine opportunity to change the fabric of Scottish society’; Envoi; Select Bibliography; Index