Manuscripta juridica

Decisiones curiae supremae Scotiae - Practicks 1592-1624 (digest, alphabetical) 'Acts of Parliament. Transgressione': (1609-1623) .

No mention of an author, no title. Written by two alternating scribes, or perhaps by even more than two scribes. No further title. Earliest dated decisions 1609. Latest dated decisions which caught my eye: 1623. Within each keyword, the decisions are usually arranged in chronological order. The text does not only comprise abstracts of decisions but also of acts of Parliament

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Author(s):

• Thomas Hamilton later 1st Earl of Haddington

No. of pages: Pag. 1-143

Incipit:

• [{i}First item:{/i}] Acts of Parliament. 1. Transgressing of the act of Parliament be websters quarrelled be the baillies of the brugh, howbeit the Kings Advocat concurre, not sustained, seing they passe from the punishment. The bayllyes of ane brugh of baronie most produce ther superiors seasing to instruct their entreis. The baillies of the Cannongait and barrone of Brughton against the websters of the Cannongait. 7 December 1622.

  [{i}Last items:{/i}] Usurie. 1. Ane contract, conteining annualrent 15 per centum, being quarrelled as usurie, will be sustained if the pairtie have not gotten payment.

  2. The advocat be himselfe, without ane informe, may persew ane usurer for annulling his securitie, escheating his sowme.

  3. The kings Thesaurer persewed Lantie and uthars inhabitants in Dundie ... bot that decreet might be reduced in Parliament. 2 March 1611.

  Yuile and Whitsunday. My Lord Chancellor, being retowred from Court last November, presented to the Session his Majesties lettres, commanding the Lords to keep vacance from the 23 December at 12 hours till 7 January exclusive, and from the Fryday befor Whitsunday at 12 hours till the Wedensday after Whitsunday, yeirlie, as lykwayes to keep the 5 November holyday, and that they give command to all inferior judges ... holyday

Explicit:

• to observe the forsaid vacances and holyday

Colophon: Finis May 1664