Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]







Decisiones curiae supremae Scotiae - Practicks 1621-1642 (digest, alphabetical) 'Adjudication'

Author(s):

  • Alexander Gibson Lord Durie
  • George Lockhart of Carnwath (re-ordinator)

Incipit:

  • Adjudication. Ane decreit [and then:] cognitionis causa declaired null

Explicit:

  • supra\ ut\ found\ but\ dispute,\ to\

Decisiones curiae supremae Scotiae - Practicks 1621-1642 (digest, alphabetical) 'Adjudication' .

Old pagination in ink. Arranged by alphabetised keywords. The items are dated, but names of parties are rare. Year dates seen: 1622/1/30 (pag. 28) - 1642/7/15 (pag. 321). Also pag. 266 near the end of keyword 'Removeings' 1642/2/8. Also pag. 299, under the keyword 'Summonds', year date 1642/2/15. The text does not correspond to the one in Edinburgh, NL Scotland, Adv.MS.6.2.6.

Originally, this copy lacked text after the actual pages 166 and 266. Therefore pag. 167-202 and pag. 267-284 were written by another hand.

In pag. 266 the author is mentioned in the third person singular (near the end of title 'Removeings', in a report of a case dated 1637/7/28): 'Item ane air ... But as Durie observeth, this retrotraction is not without difficultie ...'.

In pag. 207 a case report is dated 'Januarie 1666' (under the keyword 'Lectus aegritudinis'). This case report must be a late addition if the scribe did not garble its date: 'Item one haveing granted ane band of ane blank soume ... reduceable at the aires instance ex eo capite. This was so found betuixt the Laird of Drum and his mother and Seton and the young Laird of Touch(?).'.

Another late date (or garbled date) was appended to yet a second case report of 1628/6/8, under the same keyword, on p. 208: 'The contrare found', with date 1665/12/16.

[{i}Title, on flyleaf vi., by a 19th c. hand:{/i}] Compend of Decisions of Sir Alexander Gibson of Durie, Baronet, Lord President of the Court of Session, by Sir George Lockhart, Lord President of the Court of Session.

[{i}First keywords:{/i}] Adjudication. Admirall. Advocation. Aliment. Aires. Amerciament. Annexation. Arreistment. Assignations. Alienations. Bands. ... [{i}Last keywords:{/i}] Ward, releife and mariage. Usurie and anuelrent. Warrandice

Author(s): Alexander Gibson Lord Durie; George Lockhart of Carnwath (re-ordinator)

No. of pages: Pag. 1-321

Incipit:

  • [{i}First items:{/i}] Adjudication. Ane decreit cognitionis causa declaired null, there being no persone representing the defunct, charged to enter air ... 8 Julii 1623 et 8 Julii 1626, and yet sometymes susteaned 27 Januarie 1624.

    Item nothing can be adjudged but heretable rights, moveable soumes being only subject to arreistments on poynding ... 24 November 1638.

    Item airship goods may be adjudged as being due jure hereditario. 26 Februarii 1629.

    Item adjudications proceeding upon the renunceation ... 10 Julii 1630. Vide 'Aires'.

    [{i}Last items:{/i}] Item one being provyded to lands be contract of mariage, estimat to ane certain yeirlie dewtie ... susteaned hoc eodem ordine. 15 Julii 1642

Explicit:

  • Item one haveing acquyred ane wodset of lands ... wherupon he was content presently to dispute, but found ut supra. 28 Januarie 1631