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Samuel Parsons was born on July 8, 1846 at Hillsboro, Ohio, United States, the son of William Scott, a lawyer and banker, and his wife, Elizabeth Jane Parsons.
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Samuel Parsons was born on July 8, 1846 at Hillsboro, Ohio, United States, the son of William Scott, a lawyer and banker, and his wife, Elizabeth Jane Parsons.
Samuel Parsons Scott attended the public schools and Miami University, where he graduated Bachelor of arts in 1866, studied law.
Scott was admitted to the bar in 1868, and practised at Leavenworth, Kansas, and later at San Francisco.
In 1875, because of his father's failing health, he left his practice and returned to Hillsboro to attend to the extensive property interests which he later inherited. Thenceforth he devoted himself to intellectual pursuits, with business as an avocation.
A long sojourn in Spain resulted in a series of articles contributed to Lippincott's, The Continent, and Potter's American Monthly. In 1886 these papers, collected and revised, with some additional material, were published in book form under the title Through Spain.
Meanwhile, Scott had begun work on his most ambitious original production, History of the Moorish Empire in Europe (3 vols. , 1904), in the preface of which he stated that the work "engaged the attention of the author for more than twenty years. " His bibliography was extensive, but he neglected to cite authorities for specific points.
He had failed, however, to familiarize himself with the Continental literature of the subject, especially with the later texts; the accuracy of his translation was questioned; and his preface and notes drew adverse criticism from the reviewers; nevertheless, the fact remains that his was the first attempt to put the work into English and it stimulated an interest in the subject.
His rendering of Las Siete Partidas, the famous medieval code of Spain, appeared posthumously under the same auspices in 1931; but in this instance the Bureau officers had edited the text, the translation had been carefully checked, and an introduction, index, table of contents, and copious bibliography had been prepared by others. Unfortunately, his translations of the Roman legal landmarks, including the Corpus Juris, were printed just as he had left them, unedited and unchecked, under the misleading title of The Civil Law (17 vols. , 1932).
Many of his late works remained unpublished. These include translations of El Fuero Viejo de Castilla, El Fuero Real, Las Leyes del Estilo, El Ordenamiento de Alcala, Las Leyes Nuevas, El Ordenamiento de las Tafurerias, Las Leyes de Toro, Leyes para los Adelantados Mayores.
He died at his home in Hillsboro.
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Scott was evidently indebted to A History of the Intellectual Development of Europe (1863) by John W. Draper, and was even more favorable in his estimate of Arab culture and influence. He held that the Moorish invasion was a deliverance from Visigothic oppression and depicted the Arab regime as the most brilliant period of peninsular history, the Christian hero, El Cid, as a cruel and treacherous outlaw, and the Spanish church as a perpetual instrument of enslavement and corruption.
On October 10, 1895, when Scott was nearly fifty, Scott married Elizabeth Woodbridge Smart of Paint, Ohio. He was by that time deep in his literary labors and the union proved uncongenial. No formal separation took place; but in his will he directed that his wife should receive only a relatively small portion of his estate, allowing a considerable sum for the publication of his remaining manuscripts.