Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]







Decisiones curiae supremae Scotiae - Practicks 1621-1642 : (1621/7/11 - 1642/7/16)

Author(s):

  • Alexander Gibson Lord Durie

Incipit:

  • In an action pursued by [and then:] Nathaniel Keith

Explicit:

  • place\ this\ to\ right\ Elder's\

Decisiones curiae supremae Scotiae - Practicks 1621-1642: (1621/7/11 - 1642/7/16) .

[{i}Title page:{/i}] The Decisions of the Lords of Council and Session, in Most Cases of Importance, Debated and brought before Them; From July 1621, to July 1642 ... Observed By Sir Alexander Gibson of Durie, then one of the Senators of the Colledge of Justice. Edinburgh 1690 [{i}copy at Aberdeen, UL, shelfmark S.B. 3465 C.S. 1{/i}].

The items are printed in chronological order. They are not numbered

Author(s):

  • Alexander Gibson Lord Durie

No. of pages: Pag. 1-900

Incipit:

  • Keith contra the Tennents of Peterhead, July 11, 1642. In an action pursued by Nathaniel Keith, against the tennents of Peterhead and others, for abstracting of multures, founded upon a tack of the thirle-multures set to him by the Earl of Marshal.

    (Last item begins:) Elder contra Mercer, July 16, 1642. John Elder, son to Henry Elder, Clerk of Perth, being provided to the office of clerkship in Perth and in respect of all the circumstances, which they found very considerable in this matter ... to his place

Explicit:

  • they authorized Elder's right to this place. Actor per Nicolson, Mercer per Cheap. Hay Clerk

Colophon: Caetera, sed pauca, iniuria temporum, perierunt [{i}The last six words show that the editors assumed that the collection had originally comprised further items, but that its manuscript tradition was defective{/i}]