Erskine, John, a Scottish jurist; called to the bar in 1719; became professor of Scots Law in Edinburgh University in 1837, resigned 1763; author of two important works on Scots Law, “The Institutes” and “Principles” (1695‒1768).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Erskine, Henry * Erskine, John, D.D.