In 1791 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Scotland being proposed by Daniel Rutherford and Archibald Alison.
He died on 7 December 1810, while his work on the Criminal Law of Scotland was passing through the press.
Though in certain respects imperfect and misleading, it is a work of great merit, the more especially that it is one of the earliest attempts to form a satisfactory collection of decisions in criminal cases.
[3] Burnett was Counsel for the City of Aberdeen and was replaced by Andrew Skene upon his death.
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