Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]







Formularium - Scottish Styles : on bastards

Incipit:

  • There is a degree of persons [and then:] where the civill law makes mentione

Formularium - Scottish Styles: on bastards . Still written by the same hand. The text starts with a short summary of the law, and then adds several styles under the name of King Charles, probably Charles I because most of the styles are still written in Latin

No. of pages: Fol. [3v-4r] (to be counted from back of volume towards the middle):

Rubric: Scotts law anent bastards and legittimatione

Incipit:

  • There is a degree of persons where the civill law makes mentione, and they are called bastards, who be the law of Scotland can neither bruik honour nor office, nor can make a testament, except they be legittimat be the king. Neither can they succeed to heretage be the breife of lyne. And if they be reabled be the king, the signatur of reabiliatione[!] is sett down as followes: Signatour of legittimatione. Our soverane Lord of his speciall love and favour ordeans an letter to be made under his Highness great seall in dew forme, 'to his Highness lovitt A. B., bastard sone naturall to umquhill D. B. of T. ...'