Manuscripta juridica

Ius proprium Scotiae - Practicks (general digest of law, systematic) "Major practicks" .

With interpolations by the author's son Thomas Hope Lord Kerse.

[{i}Title, fol. 1v:{/i}] This law repertorie was collected by the Lord Kerse, who was a Lord of Session in the reign of King Charles the 1st, and son to Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, then Lord Advocate

---

Author(s):

• Thomas Hope of Craighall

No. of pages: Fol. 1v-273v

Incipit:

• [{i}fol. 2r:{/i}] De jure, titulus primus. The whole lawes of the Kingdom of Scotland were written in Latine of old, untill King James 1 time, that custom being introduced by the Pope and clergie, that the leiges who for the most part understood not the Latine tongue might be muffled in the mist of ignorance.

  [{i}Further chapter headings:{/i}] Acts of Parliament. Regiam maiestatem. Mr. Godefroy on the Norman customes. Of victual and rivers. Murburn. Acts of Parliament. Of the Parliament, tit. 4. Acts of Counsell. Of kirk and kirkmen. Gofredus. Burgh and burgesses. Kings patrimony. Exchequer. Of signatours. Patrimony of the Kirk. Erections. Taxations.

  Secunda pars. Of contracts. De pactis. De obligationibus. De mutuo et commodato. De locato et conducto. De donationibus. De pignore. De deposito. De fidejussoribus. Of assignations

Explicit:

• [{i}Last item - as in the appendix to Lord Clyde's edition:{/i}] Of ship laws and cocquetts. Title 10. ... All merchants should give an inventary of their merchandise and goods to the conservator: ibidem 1579, c. 260. Finis. Finis