Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]







Ordo iudiciarius Scotiae - Injunctions to the Commissars of Edinburgh : (also directed to Commissars elsewhere)

Incipit:

  • To witt, thou are by vertew of [and then:] your office and comissione to decyd and judge

Ordo iudiciarius Scotiae - Injunctions to the Commissars of Edinburgh: (also directed to Commissars elsewhere) .

Largely corresponding to the text of 1610/3/2 in the reprint 1962 of Balfour's Practicks, p. 664-668 = title 169, but the wording and arrangement are often different. Subdivided into numbered paragraphs. The numbering starts with the 'Instructions' and continues in other related texts which are also contained in the same title in Balfour's Practicks and in MS 3170. For instance, the section 'Ordor to be observed in confirmatione of all testaments' starts on fol. 171, with a paragraph numbered 30. The explicit of the injunctions (fol. 178v) states that they derive from a consultation given to the archbishops and bishop of Edinburgh by two senators of the College of Justice, Sir John Nisbet Lord Dirleton and Sir John Baird Lord Newbyth, and by one of the Commissars of Edinburgh, Mr. David Falconer Lord Newton

No. of pages: Fol. 159r-178v

Incipit:

  • To witt, thou are by vertew of your office and comissione to decyd and judge in causses concerning benefices and teynds, in matters of scandall, confirmatione of testaments great and small