The poor had no lawyers : who owns Scotland and (how they got it) /: who owns Scotland and (how they got it). (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Who owns Scotland and how they got it
• Further Information: Note: Andy Wightman.
• Other Names: Wightman, Andy
• Contents: 1 Show the People That Our Old Nobility Is Not Noble; 2 Superiors and Vassals; 3 Robert the Bruce -- A Murdering Medieval Warlord; 4 To Spoil the Kirk of Christ of Her Patrimony; 5 The Palladium of Our Land Proprietors; 6 In Edinburgh They Hate Us; 7 A State of Possession Already Subsisting Beyond the Memory of Man; 8 Mere Miserable Starved Caricatures of Their Former Greatness 9 I Hereby Take Possession of This Island of Rockall10 Look Here, Boy, Steady On. Let's Get This Thing Straight; 11 Lord Derby, Lloyd George and John McEwen; 12 Who Owns Scotland?; 13 A Considerable Ridge of Very High and Lofty Hills; 14 Simple Fraudulent Misrepresentation; 15 From Lord Leverhulme to Lord Sewel; 16 Those Who for Our Sake Went Down to the Dark River; 17 Tartanry, Royalty and Balmorality; 18 I Want the Assurance That I Will Not Be Evicted; 19 A Highly Unsatisfactory Guddle; 20 Planting Forests Is a Sure Way to Grow Rich; 21 I Will Not Allow House Prices to Get Out of Control 22 Three Score Men with Clubs and Staves23 All Property of a Burgh; 24 Let for a Penny a Year; 25 Problems Rarely Arise with Land in Private Ownership; 26 Little More Than an Instrument for Extracting Money; 27 Bureaucratic Nit-picking and Fine Legal Arguments; 28 Undermining the Whole Fabric of Scottish Family Life; 29 Their Unjust Concealing of Some Private Right; 30 We Do Not Want to Punish the Landlord; 31 A Public Park and Recreation Ground for the Public Behoof; 32 The Poor Still Have No Lawyers; Notes; Bibliography and Further Reading; Appendix; Index
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Birlinn
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 333.3209411; Land tenure -- Scotland -- History; Landowners -- Scotland -- History; Land reform -- Scotland -- History; Propriétaires fonciers -- Écosse -- Histoire; Réforme agraire -- Écosse -- Histoire; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General; Land reform; Land tenure; Landowners; Scotland; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857900760; 0857900765
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.