The Law Of Creeds In Scotland PDF Download

Excerpt from The Law of Creeds in Scotland: A Treatise on the Relations of Churches in Scotland Established and Not Established to the Civil Law This is not a book of Church law. It does not profess, that is, to give the internal or administrative law of any Church, as to its creed or otherwise. It is a book of the civil law of Scotland in its relation to the Church. In the present form its scope has been enlarged so as to embrace the whole relation of our jurisprudence to Churches as bodies, whether within or without establishment. It thus includes that solid block of constitutional decisions which before 1843 dealt with the Church's claim to independence within establishment, and fixed its relation to statute and the State. But it records too how the Courts, beginning in the eighteenth century with an attempt to ignore the Church outside, have been obliged to deal with it also, in connection with questions of reparation and questions of property, and on principles which are by no means yet settled. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.