The Undermining of Heritable Jurisdictions

Landholding and the nobility of the fine are much more integrated in scottish society than you think. The undermining of heritable jurisdictions means that the powers of regality, are the ultimate powers of life and death, are are removed. But it's not a, it's not an end of the ability to raise men. It's just that the process was completed and accelerated by the military and imperial conditions of the second half of the eighteenth century. And we tend to migrate towards more and morerecognizably british types of magnate power as we go forward into the nineteenth century.