The Poor Had No Lawyers
On this page, you can find additional information on the Endnotes together with links to some of the references. I will also post additional information of interest to readers.
NOTE - September 2011 - this page is not yet complete.
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On this page, you can find additional information on the Endnotes together with links to some of the references. I will also post additional information of interest to readers.
NOTE - September 2011 - this page is not yet complete.
ALSO, feel free to leave comments or ask questions on the Facebook Page (click button on right)
NEWS
QUARTERLY UPDATE September 2011 Download here
Herald Review 27 October 2010 available here
Stephen Maxwell review in third Force News here
Pat Kane at Thoughtland here
John Watson at Stone Country here
Scottish Legal Action Group Journal, December 2010 here
Scottish Environment Link review by Bob Aitken here
Edinburgh Law Review review here
My own blog entries relating to topics in the book can be found here
ERRATA
The quote on page 199 has been truncated and should continue "..common acreage in the latter part of the sixteenth century, at fully one-half of the entire area of Scotland." What follows by way of discussion now makes more sense.
QUARTERLY UPDATE September 2011 Download here
Herald Review 27 October 2010 available here
Stephen Maxwell review in third Force News here
Pat Kane at Thoughtland here
John Watson at Stone Country here
Scottish Legal Action Group Journal, December 2010 here
Scottish Environment Link review by Bob Aitken here
Edinburgh Law Review review here
My own blog entries relating to topics in the book can be found here
ERRATA
The quote on page 199 has been truncated and should continue "..common acreage in the latter part of the sixteenth century, at fully one-half of the entire area of Scotland." What follows by way of discussion now makes more sense.
ENDNOTES & REFERENCES (some
documents have links in both the relevant endnote
and under REFERENCES) Where I have noted that
re-distribution is prohibited by copyright law, I
am happy to email copies directly. Please
contact me.
I have indicated where any document exceeds 1Mb.
Chapter 2
1 Scottish land law terms
www.scottishlaw.org.uk/lawscotland/abscotslawland.html
www.ros.gov.uk/rotbook
2 Abolition of Feudal Tenure
Chapter 3
1 Grant, Franchises North of the Border (4.7Mb pdf)
9 Sellar, Farwell to Feudalism
10 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moot_hill
11 Grant, Death of John Comyn
Chapter 4
6 Knox, First Book of Discipline, Sixth Head
14 Complaint of Allan Stewart to the Privy Council
Chapter 7
1 Adams, Legal Geography of Scotland's Common Lands. Please email me if you would like a copy of this - I will need to scan it.
Chapter 8
4 Common Good Act 1491
16 Jarman, Customary Rights in Scots Law - copyright law prohibits re-distribution
17 Jarman, The Great Rabbit Massacre
Chapter 9
1 MacDonald, The Last Outpost of Empire
4 Scots Law Times - I have paper copies. Please email me and I will scan
5 Symmons, Ireland and the Rockall Dispute (1.03Mb)
6 Roth, Without Treaty, without Conquest
Chapter 11
Figure 4 on page 92. Area of land registered in the Land Register.
further chapters to be added ..........
Chapter 18
16 - 18 The Scottish Government has removed the data on payment of public subsidies to farmers in response to a European Court of Justice ruling. See here for further details where you can obtain the data.
further chapters to be added ..........
Chapter 22
1 Short, C. Traditional Commons of England and Wales (5.89Mb)
2 The Legal Geography of Scotland's Commons. Please email me if you would like a copy of this - I will need to scan it.
6 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Village_greens_in_Scotland
7 www.oss.org.uk/village-greens
10 www.swt.org.uk/visit/reserves/REM RedMossofBalerno
14 A legal history of Alyth Hill is available here (1.18Mb). See also www.alythhill.com
19 www.ros.gov.uk/foi/legal/text/ch36.htm
21 www.lands-tribunal-scotland.org.uk/decisions/LTS.LR.1999.2,3.html
30 www.birsecommunitytrust.org.uk
32 www.scottishtravellered.net & www.showmensguild.com
further chapters to be added ..........
REFERENCES - to be completed
Chapter 2
1 Scottish land law terms
www.scottishlaw.org.uk/lawscotland/abscotslawland.html
www.ros.gov.uk/rotbook
2 Abolition of Feudal Tenure
Chapter 3
1 Grant, Franchises North of the Border (4.7Mb pdf)
9 Sellar, Farwell to Feudalism
10 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moot_hill
11 Grant, Death of John Comyn
Chapter 4
6 Knox, First Book of Discipline, Sixth Head
14 Complaint of Allan Stewart to the Privy Council
Chapter 7
1 Adams, Legal Geography of Scotland's Common Lands. Please email me if you would like a copy of this - I will need to scan it.
Chapter 8
4 Common Good Act 1491
16 Jarman, Customary Rights in Scots Law - copyright law prohibits re-distribution
17 Jarman, The Great Rabbit Massacre
Chapter 9
1 MacDonald, The Last Outpost of Empire
4 Scots Law Times - I have paper copies. Please email me and I will scan
5 Symmons, Ireland and the Rockall Dispute (1.03Mb)
6 Roth, Without Treaty, without Conquest
Chapter 11
Figure 4 on page 92. Area of land registered in the Land Register.
further chapters to be added ..........
Chapter 18
16 - 18 The Scottish Government has removed the data on payment of public subsidies to farmers in response to a European Court of Justice ruling. See here for further details where you can obtain the data.
further chapters to be added ..........
Chapter 22
1 Short, C. Traditional Commons of England and Wales (5.89Mb)
2 The Legal Geography of Scotland's Commons. Please email me if you would like a copy of this - I will need to scan it.
6 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Village_greens_in_Scotland
7 www.oss.org.uk/village-greens
10 www.swt.org.uk/visit/reserves/REM RedMossofBalerno
14 A legal history of Alyth Hill is available here (1.18Mb). See also www.alythhill.com
19 www.ros.gov.uk/foi/legal/text/ch36.htm
21 www.lands-tribunal-scotland.org.uk/decisions/LTS.LR.1999.2,3.html
30 www.birsecommunitytrust.org.uk
32 www.scottishtravellered.net & www.showmensguild.com
further chapters to be added ..........
REFERENCES - to be completed
"..so much well-researched material that the reader
finally puts the book down battered, angry and
determined that something should be done..."
"frank, fearless and at times ferocious."
............ "an eloquent lament for the Scottish
legal profession's apparent collective loss of
moral purpose." - The
Herald, 30 October 2010
"The book is an essential read for all of us who want to live in the Scotland we imagine" - John Watson, Stone Country
"Wightman may have trained in forestry and worked as an environmental scientist and campaigner but he brings a lawyerly and forensic analysis to task: a voyage of discovery to find out how landowners in Scotland got their hands on the millions of acres that were once held in common' - The Times
"Utterly magnificent" - Sunday Herald
"well-written, provoking, extensively researched" - Edinburgh Law Review
I was glad to find Andy Wightman’s updated account of how this country was stolen from its people, The Poor Had No Lawyers – Who Owns Scotland And How They Got It (Birlinn, £9.99). Brilliantly researched, extremely well written and shocking in its detail, this book reminds us that when Proudhon coined his famous dictum, “property is theft”, he didn’t know the half of it. - John Burnside, novelist, Sunday Herald Review of Books of 2011 (27.11.2011)
Even readers whose political position and views about property differ from Andy Wightman’s will acknowledge the value of his book. It offers a vast amount of useful and important information, much to chew on, much to argue with, and a good deal to disturb complacency - Allan Massie, Times Literary Supplement, 14 December 2011
"The book is an essential read for all of us who want to live in the Scotland we imagine" - John Watson, Stone Country
"Wightman may have trained in forestry and worked as an environmental scientist and campaigner but he brings a lawyerly and forensic analysis to task: a voyage of discovery to find out how landowners in Scotland got their hands on the millions of acres that were once held in common' - The Times
"Utterly magnificent" - Sunday Herald
"well-written, provoking, extensively researched" - Edinburgh Law Review
I was glad to find Andy Wightman’s updated account of how this country was stolen from its people, The Poor Had No Lawyers – Who Owns Scotland And How They Got It (Birlinn, £9.99). Brilliantly researched, extremely well written and shocking in its detail, this book reminds us that when Proudhon coined his famous dictum, “property is theft”, he didn’t know the half of it. - John Burnside, novelist, Sunday Herald Review of Books of 2011 (27.11.2011)
Even readers whose political position and views about property differ from Andy Wightman’s will acknowledge the value of his book. It offers a vast amount of useful and important information, much to chew on, much to argue with, and a good deal to disturb complacency - Allan Massie, Times Literary Supplement, 14 December 2011