Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]







Ius proprium Scotiae - Registers of Acts and Decreets : precursor 1469/5/17 - 1494

Incipit:

  • The first book is in quarto, [and then:] and begins 17 May 1469

Ius proprium Scotiae - Registers of Acts and Decreets: precursor 1469/5/17 - 1494 (remarkable decrees, interlocutors, acts of Parliament, forfeitures, etc., extracts)

No. of pages: Pag. 360-361

Rubric: Some things extracted out of the books of Decreets and Acts that are kept in the Castle of Edinburgh, for informing of the manner of justice administrat in civil causes, before the erecting of the College of Justice

Incipit:

  • The first book is in quarto, and begins 17 May 1469, and ends 22 November 1470. The names who were judges at this time, and are marked in the Sederunt of every several day in this book, are, to wit, of the clergy archiepiscopatus Sancti Andreae.

    [{i}Earliest case:{/i}] 1469/5/31 Nicol Forman of Hutton against George Ker of Samuelston.

    [{i}Further registers from which notes were excerpted:{/i}] The next book of the Register is in folio, beginning upon the fifth of October 1478, and ending the second of October 1480.

    The third book of Registers is in folio, beginning 13 Feb. 1480, and ending the 3 November 1483.

    The fourth book is in folio likewise, beginning the 9 March 1483, and ending the 13 April 1485.

    The fifth book is in folio likewise, beginning the 25 October 1486, and ending 15 November 1487