Manuscripta juridica

Ius proprium Scotiae - Treatise on testaments 'It is lesume for all free men' .

Still written by the same scribe. Probably copied from Balfour's Practicks, title 60 c. 1-16 Off testaments and letter wills, and 61 c. 1-3 Of executores, p. 216-219 of the printed edition

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No. of pages: Fol. 112r-114r

Incipit:

• It is leisum for all frie men quha is not aughtand great debts to aine wther to make ane just and reasonable testament in tyme of sickness and dispone wpon his moveable guids and geire: liber 2, cap. 38 De judicibus 120. But no man in his latter will of in tyme of secknes may mak testament or aine wther dispositione of his heritage or anie part thairof in hurt of his aire.

  [{i}Chapter headings, corresponding to those in Balfour's Practicks, with some variants:{/i}] Quid[!] potest. Women may mak testament. Some that is furious may not mak testament. How he that is burdened with debt may not mak testament. The debts aughtand be the dead should be first peyed. The devisione of the guids and geir in thrie partes. Of the division of the moveable guids in two pairtes. Bairnes forisfamiliat should not have a bairnes pairt of geire. Anent the making and disposition of legacies. Off witnesses in testaments. Sundrie testaments maide be (ane) mane. Of diverse executors in one testament. Of him that deceisses intestat, of the guids perteining to him that dies intestat. Of the kings debitor deceissand. Of executores. Of the oath of executors

Explicit:

• And if they failzie or neglect to doe this same, the aire may call and persew in all such actiones. 1 March 1556, 2 tom. c. 266. 17 Julii 1501, 1 tom. c. 111.

  Spot check of quotations from (Balfour's) Registrum Scotiae, compared to those in the printed edition:

  1551/12/24 = 2 tom. 343 / James contra [{i}gap{/i}] [Printed edition is clearly less correct, 1451/9/24, 1 tom. 343, and no parties mentioned].

  1563/7/16 = 1 tom. 303 / Thomas Cair contra James Clerk [Printed edition is probably more correct, 1 tom. 1303 Thomas Archibald contra James Clerk].

  1420/7/13-16 = 2 tom. 348 and 349 / 'in Sinod Generallie apud Perth' (quoted two times).

  1561/2/23 = 1 tom. 1227 / Sir William Hamiltoune contra Wallaces of Dragie [Printed edition has 1 tom. 1277 Sir William Hamiltoune contra Johne Wallace of Craigie.

  1554/3/18 = 1 tom. 1187 cap. 14 / Duncan Hunter contra Thomas Hunter [Printed edition has 1554/3/18 and leaves out 'cap. 14'].

  1554/3/2-11= 21[!] tom. cap. 357 / Laird Meton contra Laird Stralich [Printed edition has 1554/5/11, 2 tom. 357, Laird of Meldrum contra Laird of Straloch].

  1556/3/1 = 2 tom. 266 /{i}no names of parties{/i}.

  1501/7/17 = 1 tom. 111 /{i}no names of parties{/i}