In Scots Law, assault is defined as an " attack upon the person of another ".

By virtue of Article II of the Treaty of Union, which defined the succession to the throne of Great Britain, the Act of Settlement became part of Scots Law as well.

Scots common law differs in that the use of precedents is subject to the courts ' seeking to discover the principle that justifies a law rather than searching for an example as a precedent, and principles of natural justice and fairness have always played a role in Scots Law.

* Scots Law of Delict ( broadly equivalent, deals more with principle rather than specific wrongs )

Under Scots Law, baronets had to " take sasine " by symbolically receiving the earth and stone of the land of which they were baronet.

In a reminiscence on his early training as an advocate in Edinburgh, Sir Walter Scott describes the law as " Scotch Law " some four times and as " Scots Law " just once.

By the 1840s other writers are using " Scots Law ", and this usage is now standard ( although not universal ) world-wide.

* Scots Law

* Scots Law

* Law, a Scots language word for a conical hill which rises incongruously from the surrounding landscape

While Scotland and Northern Ireland have always had separate legal systems to England ( see Scots law and Northern Ireland law ), this has not been the case with Wales ( see English law, Welsh law and Contemporary Welsh Law ).

He supported the society's programme to send a bible to every court in Scotland and wrote in support of " The Bible in Scots Law ", a pamphlet it distributed to Scottish lawyers which described the Bible as a " foundational source book for Scotland's legal system ".

The career path of recent Scottish law officers, Scots Law Times, 14 July 2006

Her Majesty's Solicitor General for Scotland ( Àrd-neach-lagha a ' Chrùin an Alba ) is one of the Law Officers of the Crown, and the deputy of the Lord Advocate, whose duty is to advise the Crown and the Scottish Government on Scots Law.

Since their transfer to the Scottish Government, the United Kingdom Government has been advised on Scots Law by the Advocate General for Scotland.

Her Majesty's Advocate General for Scotland () is one of the Law Officers of the Crown, whose duty it is to advise the Crown and UK Government on Scots law.

The office of Advocate General for Scotland was created in 1999 by the Scotland Act 1998 to be the chief legal adviser to the United Kingdom Government on Scots Law.

There is no equivalent to the felony murder rule in Scots Law which has also never had a specific concept of felonies in the previous style of English Law.

* 1992 Scots Criminal Law ( with David H Sheldon, second edition published 1997 )

It was concerned with damage done from damnum iniuria datum, " damage unlawfully inflicted ", a kind of a delict ( or tort ), albeit with differences from tort as known in modern common law systems and the Scots Law of Delict.

There is no distinction made in Scotland between assault and battery ( which is not a term used in Scots law ), although, as in England and Wales, assault can be occasioned without a physical attack on another's person, as demonstrated in Atkinson v. HM Advocate wherein the accused was found guilty of assaulting a shop assistant by simply jumping over a counter wearing a ski mask.

A memorial also exists in the town to the legal case of Donoghue v Stevenson, also known as the Paisley Snail Case, which established the modern rules of negligence in Scots law and the legal systems of the Commonwealth.

While these games do not form part of the official GPS Championship, some ( such as Joeys v Knox, Scots v Cranbrook and Newington v Trinity Rugby ) are developing into significant events.

Also, in Gibson v Lord Advocate, Lord Keith was circumspect about how Scottish courts would deal with an Act which would substantially alter or negate the essential provisions of the 1707 Act, such as the abolition of the Court of Session or the Church of Scotland or the substitution of English law for Scots law.

One of the leading cases in Scots Law is that of Smith v Donnelly, a case concerning a Faslane protester.

Seven months previously, in the case of Hinton v. Donaldson, the Scots Court of Session had ruled that copyright did not exist in the common law of Scotland, so that Alexander Donaldson ( an appellant in Donaldson v. Beckett with his older brother, John ) could lawfully publish Thomas Stackhouse's New History of the Holy Bible.

The principles of Rylands v Fletcher were initially applied in Scots law, first in the case of Mackintosh v Mackintosh, where a fire spreading from the defendant's land to the claimant's land caused property damage.

The use of Rylands in Scots law, which was started in Mackintosh, finally came to an end in RHM Bakeries v Strathclyde Regional Council.

The Pipe Major of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards was summoned to Edinburgh Castle and chastised for demeaning the bagpipes.

A Short Account of Scots Divines, by him, was printed at Edinburgh in 1833, edited by James Maidment.

Edinburgh has also become associated with the crime novels of Ian Rankin, and the work of Irvine Welsh, whose novels are mostly set in the city and are often written in colloquial Scots.

* 1567 – Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is found strangled following an explosion at the Kirk o ' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland, a suspected assassination.

In 1603, James VI King of Scots inherited the throne of the Kingdom of England, and became King James I of England, leaving Edinburgh for London, uniting England and Scotland under one monarch.

A. M., The Kingship of the Scots 842 – 1292: Succession and independence, Edinburgh UP, Edinburgh, 2004 ISBN 0-7486-1626-8

* Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh

* 1565 – The widowed Mary, Queen of Scots, marries Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany, at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, Scotland.

* 1566 – David Rizzio, private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Bruce crowned King of Scots ; modern tableau at Edinburgh Castle

) ( 1997 ) The Edinburgh history of the Scots language.

They would have been kept by the Scots and Picts, and used to help in providing part of their diet, namely hoofed game ( archaeological evidence likely supports this in the form of Roman pottery from around 1st Century AD found in Argyll which depicts the deerhunt using large rough hounds ( these can be viewed at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh ).

In July, while planning a return to Edinburgh for supplies, Edward received intelligence that the Scots were encamped nearby at Falkirk, and he moved quickly to engage them in the pitched battle he had long hoped for.

* February 10 – Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered at the Provost's House in Edinburgh.

Mortimer used his power to acquire noble estates and titles, and his unpopularity grew with the humiliation at Stanhope Park and the ensuing Treaty of Edinburgh – Northampton, signed with the Scots in 1328.

Irvine Welsh is known for writing in his native Edinburgh Scots dialect.

A proclamation was made at the Cross of Edinburgh on 28 July that government would be in the joint names of the king and queen of Scots, thus giving Darnley equality with, and precedence over, Mary.

* Rosalind K. Marshall, Mary of Guise: Queen of Scots, abridged, NMS Publishing, Edinburgh ( 2001 ).

The Scots allied with France, who sent reinforcements for the defence of Edinburgh in 1548, while Mary, Queen of Scots was removed to France, where she was betrothed to the dauphin.

In the mid-15th century, with the emergence of Edinburgh as the main seat of the royal court and the chief city in the kingdom, the Kings of Scots increasingly used the accommodation at Holyrood for secular purposes.

Expecting the English to press their advantage, the Scots hastily constructed a town wall around Edinburgh and augmented the castle's defences.

James ' successor, King Charles I, visited Edinburgh Castle only once, hosting a feast in the Great Hall, and staying the night before his coronation as King of Scots in 1633, the last occasion that a reigning monarch has resided in the castle.