Manuscripta juridica

Ordo iudiciorum Scotiae - Treatise 'In all actiounis and pleyes thrie persounis are necessar' ("Form of process") , edited in print in 1609.

Quotes Regiam maiestatem and other texts of the "Auld Lawis". Maintains to some extent old Scots spelling. Divided into 36 chapters

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No. of pages: Fol. 1r-17v (third series):

Rubric: Ane treatise containing ane short forme of proces presentlie used and observed before the Lords of Counsell and Session

Incipit:

• Chapter 1, of judges and division of actions. In all actiones and pleyes thrie persones are necessar: judex, the judge; actor, the pursuer; reus, the defender - liber 2 c. 2. (2) The judge hes divers and sundrie jurisdictions, (3) becaus some actions are criminall, quhilk concernes lyfe and limme, or tinsell of any of them, or tuiches sic crimes as may infer confiscation of the gudes, perteining to the trespasser

Explicit:

• Chapter 36. Reduction of decreitts ... be reasone of his probable ignorance, as said is, quia quae de novo emergunt vel ad notitiam perveniunt, novo indigent auxilio [X.2.7.5, D.11.1.11.3, D.36.4.4, D.25.4.1]. Finis