Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]







Formularium - Scottish Styles of Writs

Author(s):

  • John Spotswood

Incipit:

  • Seeing none can fully [and then:] understand, or surely practise the law

Explicit:

  • stamped\ is\ write\ principal\ the\

Formularium - Scottish Styles of Writs .

[{i}Title page:{/i}] John Spotiswood of Spotswood, advocat: An Introduction To the Knowledge of the Stile of Writs, Simple and Compound, made use of in Scotland ... The Second Edition with Additions. Edinburgh 1715 [{i}The first and second edition were both printed in 1715, but the copyright privilege dates from 1707. Copy of second edition at Aberdeen, UL, shelfmark pi 34793 Spo 2{/i}]

Author(s):

  • John Spotswood

No. of pages: (item 1)

Incipit:

  • Seeing none can fully understand, or surely practise the law, unless they know the form and nature of writs and securities

Explicit:

  • Of the date and testing of writs. In Scotland, no paper is formal and valid without a date ... the same ought not to make faith till it be instructed, that the principal write is stamped