Manuscripta juridica

Ordo iudiciarius Scotiae - Treatise 'And first of summonds' .

This treatise originated at the latest in 1671 - see the remark penned before it

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Author(s):

• David Edgar

No. of pages: Fol. 1r-8r (third series of numbering):

Rubric: Some colectiones and observationes anent the bringing in and persewing of actiones before the Lords. [{i}Remark on preceding page:{/i}] That which followes is some noats which I had by me, and the collectiones of severall obsservationes anent the bringing in and persewing of actiones befoir the Lords and other inferior judicatories. David Edgar

Incipit:

• And first of summonds. And of them be tuo sorts, videlicet summonds, and these which are denominat 'comone lettres'. And first ther be lybells or sumonds of diverse natures

Explicit:

• Ther is some other diligence in law, wherby men secure themselves, and that is be takeing of ther debitors escheat of lyferent ... wold advert that the messenger be formall both in that and in the charge