Ethics and courtesies of branching into other tartans?

[Nemuragh]

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In the court case cited, the primary documents had been available and were carefully examined and then discussed in the meeting of a society of men whose experience with such was more than extensive. Their point on the calendar puts them much closer to the events, and they had access to the documentation...

If it is real (i.e. not fictional) I don’t think this decision would stand up in a Scottish Court today and, even were it true, it seems unlikely that it would be a binding precedent. I don’t think that anyone need follow it particularly if they are outwith Scottish jurisdiction.

I’d be interested to know how an expert in Scottish jurisprudence would assess the likelihood of its truth.

[OC Richard]

I suppose it just goes to show that there are differing approaches, yours the approach of the storyteller, mine the approach of the historian. All we can do is acknowledge that we have different approaches, neither inherently more "correct" than the other.