Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]







Acta criminalia Scotiae : styles

Author(s):

  • William Hamilton of Whitelaw

Incipit:

  • The Justice Clerk deputts. [and then:] Deputatione. Be it kend to all men

Explicit:

  • is\ will\ Our\ hereefter.\ lyke\

Acta criminalia Scotiae: styles .

Modern pagination in pencil.

[{i}Title, handwriting probably saec. XIX.1, on flyleaf iv:{/i}] The form of proceeding in matters criminal, by my Lord Whitelaw. Anno 1673

Author(s): William Hamilton of Whitelaw (Lord Justice Clerk in 1704)

No. of pages: Pag. 1-146

Incipit:

  • The Justice Clerk deputts. Deputatione. Be it kend to all men be thir presents ... Sir R. M., Knight, principall Justice Clerk to our soverane Lord within the kingdome of Scotland.

    [{i}Last heading:{/i}] Lybell against shootters and steallers(?) of doves

Explicit:

  • videlicet to be punished to the death as theives, to the terrour and example of others to comitt the lyke hereefter. Our will is, etc.

    Pag. 147-148 blank.

    Pag. 149-150 George Neilson's biographical notes on William Hamilton of Whitelaw and on another MS of the above written work = Edinburgh, NL Scotland, MS.2763.

    Pag. 151-173 blank