Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]







Dictionarium verborum iuris proprii Scotiae 'De verborum significatione' : excerptum 'Bastardus'

Author(s):

  • John Skene of Curriehill

Incipit:

  • Bastardus, in French [and then:] 'bastard', ane bairne unlawfullie begotten outwith the band of mariage

Explicit:

  • before\ him\ of\ had\ bastard\

Dictionarium verborum iuris proprii Scotiae 'De verborum significatione' , edited in print in 1597: excerptum 'Bastardus'.

Quotes Corpus iuris civilis; Budaeus, Commentarius in Pandectas; "Auld Lawis". Ends with ten rules about consequences of bastardy status

Author(s): John Skene of Curriehill (editor, probably also author)

No. of pages: Fol. 133r-135v

Rubric: Skeins expositione of the word 'bastardus', and certane rules anent succession

Incipit:

  • Bastardus, in French [and then:] 'bastard', ane bairne unlawfullie begotten outwith the band of mariage

Explicit:

  • and give him such infeftment of the lands as the umquhill bastard had of him before