Manuscripta juridica

Ordo iudiciorum Scotiae - Treatise 'Judgment is ane examinatioun' ("Thesaur of practique") .

This is obviously the same work as in Edinburgh, NL Scotland, Adv.MS.24.1.8 and 11, see there. The treatise quotes Digesta, Codex Justinianus, Authenticorum collatio, Decretales Gregorii IX papae ('Liber Extra'), but most propositions of law do not refer to any text of authority. I deem that the scribe, or already the person who translated this work from the Latin, left out quotations. If this is a re-worked translation of a work from the European continent (as I suspect it to be), then it can easily be explained why it has so few quotations: the pertinent quotations could simply be retrieved from the printed edition of the original text in Latin. It was thus not worth while transcribing them in the translation

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No. of pages: Fol. 353r-367v

Rubric: Tresore of Prattik

Incipit:

• First pairt of the Thesaure of practique. 1. Jugement [{i}= chapter 1.1{/i}]. Jugement is ane examinatioun or disceptatioun of onie contraversie or ane lawfull act that is done in the place quhair causses ar decydit. The quhilk consistis in thre personis, to wit in ane juge and persewer and ane defender. The substance of the same consistis in the same thre personis. Of the quhilk, gif onie be absent, thair is na jugement. The substantiall and principall pairtis of jugement is the summonds, the libell or petitioun, the aithe callit juramentum calumniae, litiscontestatioun, the concensioun [{i}= garbled, 'conclusion' is meant{/i}] and the sentence in writt.

  And albeit the King micht dischairge sic solemnities as ar statute to be observit in jugement, introducit be the law positive callit the law of man, sic as litiscontestatioun, the dilatiounis of dyettis assignit to giff in articles of(?) probatioun, zit he mey not dischairge onie inducit be the law of nature, as the citatioun of Adame efter his offence: beand in paradise, quhen he suld haif bene condamnit, he was first callit [Bible, Genesis 3.9].

  (Fol. 354v) Jugement callit contradictioun is in the quhilk the ane requyris and the uther denyis. And in sic jugement they mey abide with the opinioun of the grittest pairt, except in sum causses as ar numerat in glossa in cap. Pasto. [X.1.31.11 glossa ordinaria].

  (Fol. 354v) Concerning jugement ze sall wit four rewllis: [{i}first rule ={/i}] that the instance of iugement be prorogat to ane terme, albeit, the terme be past, zet the causs sall not perrische, be ressoun that the jurisdictioun is perpetuall, and siclik the interdictis: l. 2, C. de diversis rescriptis [C.1.23.2]. And this reull is aganis the tenour of the law: l. Properandum, declarand that the instance of civile causs contenewis bot thre zeiris at the maist, ut (invenitur?) in dicta lege, C. de iudiciis [C.3.1.13].

  In jugement suld be na exceptioun of personis: ca. In judici., de regulis iuris, libro 6 [6. 5.13.12].

  [{i}Further chapter headings:{/i}] (Fol. 355r, chapter 1.2) Off actionis, thair divisiounis and definitiounis. Heveand understand quhat is jugement, necessar to knaw the actiounis that ar persewit in it.

  (Fol. 356v, chapter 1.3) Of interdictis or inhibitiounis. Heveand declarit in the last chaiptour sundrie kyndis of actionis ... (Fol. 356v, chapter 1.4) Off sessioun [{i}read:{/i} cessioun] or transferring the actioun. Now it is to be maid knawin ... (Fol. 357r, chapter 1.5) Off juges and thair office. Heveand sene quhat is jugement and of actionis ... (Fol. 357r , chapter 1.6) Exceptionis againis the juge ordiner. (Fol. 357v, chapter 1.7) Exceptionis againis the juge delegat. (Fol. 358r, chapter 1.8) Exceptionis againis the juges arbitrataris. (Fol. 358v, chapter 1.9) Exceptionis againis the assessours. (Fol. 358v, chapter 1.10) Off the very full and perfyte cognitioun or tryell: off the full and sufficient tryell and of summar and breif tryell.

  Secund pairte of the Thesaure of practique. (Fol. 359r, chapter 2.1) Off the persewar or defender. (Fol. 360r, chapter 2.2) Off the defender, and exceptiounis againis him. (Fol. 360r, chapter 2.3) Off the procuratoure. (Fol. 360r, chapter 2.4) Exceptionis fra the reule. (Fol. 360v, chapter 2.5) Off the procuratour sindique of the oeconimus of the actour ... (Fol. 360v, chapter 2.6) Off the tutour. (Fol. 361r, chapter 2.7) Off curatouris. (Fol. 361r, chapter 2.8) Off the advocat. (Fol. 361r, chapter 2.9) Off the executor or servand.

  Thrid pairt of the Thesaure of practique. (Fol. 361r, chapter 3.1) The summonds or citationis. (Fol. 361v, chapter 3.2) Off the juge competent or incompetent. (Fol. 361v, chapter 3.3) Off the absence or contumatie. (Fol. 362r, chapter 3.4) Off the petitioun or libell. (Fol. 362r, chapter 3.5) Off dilayis or dilationis. (Fol. 362r, chapter 3.6) Off feriat and vacance. (Fol. 362r, chapter 3.7) Renunciatioun of the iuge. (Fol. 362r, chapter 3.8) Exceptionis.

  Fourt pairt of Thesaure of practique. (Fol. 362v, chapter 4.1) Of litiscontestatioun. (Fol. 363r, chapter 4.2) Articlis or positionis. (Fol. 363r, chapter 4.3) Off confessionis. (Fol. 363r, chapter 4.4) Off previs and probatioun. (Fol. 363v, chapter 4.5) Off witnesses. (Fol. 364r, chapter 4.6) Off the productioun or writtis, instrumentis and obiectionis againis thame. (Fol. 364v, chapter 4.7) Off presumptionis. (Fol. 364v, chapter 4.8) Off suering and offering of the aithe. (Fol. 365r, chapter 4.9) Off thai quhilkis the advocattis suld avyse and observe and siklike the iuge heveand hard thame. (Fol. 365r, chapter 4.10) The privilegis of the law quhilkis mey be renuncit, or not, in publique instrumentis.

  Fift pairt of the Thesaure of practique. (Fol. 365v, chapter 5.1) Off the pronuncing of the sentence or decreit. (Fol. 366r, chapter 5.2) Off the executioun of sentence. (Fol. 366r, chapter 5.3) Appellatioun. (Fol. 366v, chapter 5.4) Off restitutioun in integrum of the auld place. (Fol. 366v, chapter 5.5) Off condamming in expensses. (Fol. 366v, chapter 5.6) The maner to proceid in criminall actiounis