Manuscripta juridica

Ius proprium Scotiae - Practicks (general digest of law, alphabetical) 'Actiones' - 'Woods' (= Spottiswoode rearranged) .

Written by probably two hands, on three types of paper. Change of hands occurs on page 289. Old pagination in ink. No title. Yet, space of twelve lines is left free at the beginning, probably for an ornate title to be supplied at a later time. At the end of each keyword some lines are left blank, maybe for additions. Yet, I only found additions in the margins, and they are scarce. Several sheets are damaged by ink corrosion (e.g. pag. 67, 215-218, 223, 255-259). A note on page 182 informs readers about a gap in the model MS, caused by paper being torn out: 'This title is riben out of the originall'. The scribe only wrote the keyword title ('Instrument and notares') and the title's first nine words: ('Quando fit mentio in instrumento de tali actu qui'). Thereafter the scribe left twenty-two lines blank, in order to supply the missing text at a later time, from a different model MS

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Author(s):

• Robert Spottiswoode

No. of pages: Pag. 1-361

Incipit:

• De actionibus. Actio est jus persequendi in judicio quod sibi debetur. Propria significatione ... [{i}corresponds to Adv.MS.24.6.4, with the following variant:{/i}] ut iudici ab ea recedere non liceat.

  [{i}Next keyword titles:{/i}] Communia actionum trium: familiae erciscundae, communi dividundo, et finium regundorum. Advocatione. Adjudication. Aire and airshipe. Arbiters. Arrestment. Assignations and intimations. Annualrents. Acturneys and procurators. Baronie, burgh, and custumes thereof. Bastardie. Blench-halding. Bailzeries. Debitors and creditors. Comprysing. Confirmatione of kirklands and thair infeftments. Charge and requisition.

  [{i}Last keyword titles:{/i}] Title and right. Tailzies. Violent profeits. Vassalls. Usurae. Universall intromettors. Ususfructus. De verborum significatione: 'Ipso jure' dicitur quod statim fit, quodque novum factum non exigit ... necesse nempe habet adire haereditatem. Usus et habitatio. Universitas. Warrandice. Writts and evidents. Waird. Woodes.

  (End:) Woodes. Apud nos quaestionem fuisse audivi in [{i}blank space{/i}] qui sylvas, nisi speciatim nominentur, sub generali dispositione comprehendi non putavit. ... Hodie universaliter apud nos observatur ut ... exprimantur

Explicit:

• sylvae fundo concesso cedant, etiamsi non exprimantur. Craig L. 2 d. 6. [{i}The remainder of the text is wanting.{/i}].

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