Patrick Shaw (legal writer)

Patrick Shaw (1796–1872) was a Scottish lawyer and legal writer.

Born at Ayr, he was grandson of Very Rev David Shaw, D.D., moderator of the general assembly in 1775, and son of Charles Shaw, clerk of Ayrshire. Alexander Shaw, Sir Charles Shaw, and John Shaw (1792–1827) were his brothers. In boyhood he lost his leg through an accident.

In 1819 Shaw was called to the Scottish bar.

In the 1830s he is listed as Partick Shaw, advocate living at 62 Frederick Street in Edinburgh's New Town.

In 1848 he was appointed sheriff of chancery, and he held the post till 1869, when he resigned in failing health. He died at 36 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, on 12 February 1872.

In 1821 Shaw started with his friend James Ballantine, and later with Alexander Dunlop, a series of reports of the decisions in the court of session. In 1824 he began a similar series of reports of decisions in the House of Lords on appeal from the Scottish courts. Shaw also published supplementary digests of the decisions. His works were:

Shaw also edited the sixth edition of George Joseph Bell's Commentaries on the Laws of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1858, and the fifth edition of Bell's Principles of the Law of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1860.

In 1860 Shaw married the fourth daughter of William Fullarton of Skeldon, Ayrshire.

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1897). "". Dictionary of National Biography. 51. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 

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