Scotland’s Foreshore

Public Rights, Private Rights and the Crown 1840 - 2017

John Macaskill (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2020
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-3692-2 (ISBN)

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The ownership of Scotland’s foreshore has been a matter of a prolonged controversy. In the past, the debate centered on whether the shore was owned by the Crown or by adjacent proprietors and on how, and by whom, Crown-owned foreshore should be managed. 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. Drawing on his expert knowledge of law and its evolution, MacAskill provides new and valuable insights into the foreshore controversy and the contest between proprietors and the Crown and he discusses the important issues as to the management of the foreshore, issues that culminated in responsibility for the management of Scotland’s Crown-owned foreshore being devolved to the Scottish Parliament at a time when the question of land ownership is central to Scottish political debate.

John MacAskill is a retired solicitor and an Honorary Fellow in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh. He is the author of We Have Won the Land: The story of the purchase of the North Lochinver Estate by the Assynt Crofters Trust (1999) and The Highland Destitution of 1837: Government Aid and Public Subscription (2013).

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

Erscheinungsdatum	04.06.2020
Reihe/Serie	Scotland's Land
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4744-3692-7 / 1474436927
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-3692-2 / 9781474436922
Zustand	Neuware