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      • Scottish lawyer and statesman. Born in Ayrshire, Dalrymple was a presbyterian. He was knighted at the Restoration and appointed a lord of Session.
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  2. The Stair Society is named after Scotland’s greatest jurist, James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount Stair. Stair’s Institutions of the Law of Scotland, first published in 1681, was the foundation of modern Scots law.

  3. James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount Stair (1619 - 1695), was born at Drummurchie, Barr, South Ayrshire, the son of the laird of the small estate of Stair in the District of Kyle. He was educated at the grammar school at Mauchline and at the age of fourteen went to the University of Glasgow.

  4. His son, James Dalrymple, was one of those who signed the confession of faith, and entered into an association for the defence of the Reformed religion in 1562. He was also one of those who...

  5. When Sir James Dalrymple , 1st Viscount of Stair was born on 1 May 1619, in Barr, Ayrshire, Scotland, his father, James Dalrymple ll of Stair, was 34 and his mother, Janet Kennedy, was 21. He married Lady Margaret Ross on 21 September 1643, in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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  6. Lawyer and politician James Dalrymple was a signatory of the National Covenant. From 1641-7 he was Regent of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts at Glasgow, before being called to the Bar as...

  7. Overview. James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount Stair. (1619—1695) lawyer and politician. Quick Reference. [S] (1619–95). Scottish lawyer and statesman. Born in Ayrshire, Dalrymple was a presbyterian. He was knighted at the Restoration and appointed a lord of Session. By 1681 he was in ...

  8. His aim was not to compile contingent material and to impose a rational structure upon it in a superficial way. On the contrary, Stair’s intuition is that the private law of Scotland embodies a universal juristic logic.

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