Manuscripta juridica

Decisiones curiae supremae Scotiae - Practicks 1649/6/14 - 1650/1/25: (extracts) .

Reference is made to page numbers of the printed edition.

Vol. 1 pag. 477-492 Sir John Gilmour of Craigmillar 1661/7-1666/6.

Vol. 1 pag. 493-537 Sir John Baird of Newbyth 1664/11/25-1667/2/15.

Vol. 1 pag. 539-563 Sir John Nisbet of Dirleton 1665/12/12-1677/6/26.

Vol. 1 pag. 565-797 Sir Peter Wedderburn Lord Gosford 1668/6/19-1682/12/21.

Vol. 1 pag. 799-800 Sir David Falconer of Newton 1682/11/11-1682/12/21.

Vol. 2 pag. 1-131 Sir Roger Hog of Harcarse 1672/6/21-1692/2, reference to page numbering and item numbering 1-627.

Vol. 2 pag. 133-284 James Dalrymple of Stair 1662/2/7-1681/7/19.

Vol. 2 pag. 285-715 Sir John Lauder Lord Fountainhall.

'Partly taken from four MSS, the contents of which have never before been printed; and partly consisting of those cases in the two printed volumes of Lord Fountainhall's Decisions, which were not included in the Dictionary of Decisions'.

No shelfmarks are indicated for the four MSS in question, but I suspect them to be Adv.MSS.6.2.14-16 and MS Signet 37 part IV. The editor tried to bring the material from different sources into a strictly chronological sequence, but he made concessions in order to draw entries of different times together when they related to the same case: such entries are grouped together under the date when the latest decision was taken. Lord Fountainhall quoted many texts of Jus Commune.

Vol. 2 pag. 287-300 'Advocates' Folio MS'fol. 50-52, 1661/6-1663/7/1.

Vol. 2 pag. 301-369 'Signet MS.', item nr. 1-89, fol. 1-34, 1663/11/6-1664/1/22, starting with a remark 'I procured, from Mr. William Lauder, Clerk, a Civil Register of Decreets, beginning the 1st of November, 1663, and ending the 22d, inclusive, of January, 1664; so that, in some measure, it comprehends what Decreets were done by the Lords, and extracted, the space of three months of a Winter Session, in that Chamber'[{i}obviously quoted from MS Edinburgh, Signet L, 37, part IV, fol. 1r{/i}].

Vol. 2 pag. 370-371 again 'Advocates' MS'fol. 52-53, 1664/6/18-1664/7/20.

Vol. 2 pag. 372-414 again 'Signet MS.', item nr. 2-89, fol. 39-64, 1665/1/20-1665/2/18 "I procured another Civil Register of Decreets, beginning in the 20th of January 1665, and ending the 18th of February 1665" [{i}again quoted from MS Edinburgh, Signet L, 37, part IV, fol. 39r{/i}].

Vol. 2 pag. 414-451 again 'Advocates' MS'fol. 53-60, 1665/2/20-1669/1/20.

Vol. 2 pag. 451-715 Probably another 'Advocates' MS', item nr. 1-386, fol. 65-166, 1669/2/9-1673/2.

Vol. 3 pag. 1-148 Continuation of Fountainhall's collection, again transcribed from the same "Advocates' MS", items nr. 388-576, fol. 215-286, 1673/6-1677/6/19.

Vol. 3 pag. 148-150 'Remarks on sundry points of law': treasure, caution, forged writs, exhibition, wakening, proving the tenor, number of witnesses and attestation for seasines, competition between the Master and the tenant's creditors = Advocates' MS, item 578, fol. 286.

Vol. 3 pag. 150-154 Remarks on multures, assizes, escheat, removings, tocher, messengers, presumptions of payment, feu-duty, pledges, run-rig, base seasine of ward lands = Advocates' MS, item nr. 579-580, fol. 287-289.

Vol. 3 pag. 154-232 again 'Advocates' MS', item nr. 581-732 and 523 [p. 156] and 510 [p. 161], fol. 289-321, 1677/6/26-1678/2/26.

Vol. 3 pag. 233-320 Extracts from the printed edition, vol. I p. 1-74, 1678/6/8-1680/1/8.

Vol. 3 pag. 320-323 again 'Advocates' MS', items nr. 582 fol. 289, nr. 676 fol. 311, nr. 679 fol. 311, 1677-1679.

Vol. 3 pag. 323 Printed edition, vol. I p. 51 and 74, 1680/1/10.

Vol. 3 pag. 323-324 again 'Advocates' MS', items nr. 577 fol. 286, nr. 610 fol. 294.

Vol. 3 pag. 324-339 Printed edition, vol. I p. 4, 30, 75-87, 1678/6/15-1680/2/24.

Vol. 3 pag. 339-340 again 'Advocates' MS', item nr. 542 fol. 275, 1677-1680.

Vol. 3 pag. 34-370 Printed edition, vol. I p. 39, 71, 90-113, 1679/1/31-1680/10.

Vol. 3 pag. 370-371 again 'Advocates' MS', item nr. 720 fol. 318, 1678-1680.

Vol. 3 pag. 371-468 Printed edition, vol. I, different pages, mostly 114-229, 1678/7/24-16-1683/3/22.

Vol. 3 pag. 468-474 again 'Advocates' MS', item nr. 720 fol. 232 and nr. 480 fol. 248, 1674/2-1683/3/22.

Vol. 3 pag. 474-530 Printed edition, vol. I, different pages, mostly from pag. 229 onwards, 1682/3/25-1685/1/7.

etc. etc., to pag. 685, end date 1688/7/26.

Vol. 3 pag. 685 Remark from 'MS. Page 420': Harvest vacance, 1688. The law occurrents during this harvest vacance to the Revolution in November 1688, are observed by me in a small quarto Manuscript, and so are forborne to be inserted here. But we may count it a surcease of Justice from August to the 1st of November 1689; for albeit the Session sat during November 1688, yet, by the Prince of Orange's arrival then in England, no business was done, save on a few bills. As for the decisions after the re-establishment of the Session under King William in November 1689; see the continuation of them shortly remarked in other manuscripts beside me.

Vol. IV pag. 1-928 Continuation of Fountainhall's collection, now apparently excerpted from the printed edition, only, 1692/11/9-1712/7/30. Shortly browsing in the volume, I did not find extracts from MSS although Adv.MS.6.2.14 contains material collected by Lord Fountainhall from 1692 onwards.

Vol. V pag. 1-14 Sir Hew Dalrymple of North-Berwick, referring to item numbers and page numbers, 1699/11/16-718/12/17.

Vol. V pag. 15-97 William Forbes, advocate, referring to page numbers, 1705/6/19-1713/7/24.

Vol. V pag. 97-110 William Forbes, advocate, referring to page numbers 1-94 in a MS, 1-94, 1713/11/17-1714/7/22.

Vol. V pag. 111-139 Alexander Bruce, advocate, from the printed edition vol. I-II, 1714/11/12-1717/1/4.

Vol. V pag. 141-147 Henry Home, Lord Kames, from the printed edition vol. I-II, 1734/2/16-1757/11/17.

Vol. V pag. 148-157 John Edgar, advocate, referring to page numbers, 1724/1/29-1725/7/8.

Vol. V pag. 169-174 Alexander Home, clerk of the Session, referring to item numbers and page numbers, 1736/1/15-1743/7/21.

Vol. V pag. 175-179 David Falconer, Advocate, vol. I-II, referring to item numbers and page numbers, 1746/7/3-1749/2/22.

Vol. V pag. 181-184 James Ferguson, Lord Pitfour, 1724-1751.

Vol. V pag. 185-369 Sir James Ferguson of Kilkerran, 1735/12/4-1759/12/20 - no source is indicated, maybe published from a MS.

Vol. V pag. 371-641 Alexander Tait, clerk of Session, 1762 [p. 499] -1780 [p. 533], arranged under alphabetised keywords.

Vol. V pag. 643-648 Reporters for the Faculty of Advocates, 1767, 1785, 1787, 1794.

Vol. V pag. 649-941 James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, 1738/11/25-1768/3/7 - the source is not indicated, maybe published from a MS

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Author(s):

• Robert MacGill Lord Foord

No. of pages: Vol. 1 pag. 385-476