Manuscripta juridica

Ordo iudiciorum Scotiae "Modus tenendi curias baronum" (in Scots)

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No. of pages: Fol. 109r-122v

Rubric: The forme and maner of baron courte [{i}Addition in the margin:{/i}] Hic tractatus non reperitur in antiquis libris. Nec etiam in multis recentioribus. Stilus indicat eum a quodam neoterico scriptum esse [{i}= 'written by some moderniser{/i}'], qui proxime praecedentem tractatum in linguam nostram transferre et interpretari conatus est. Feliciter ille quidem in multis - set parum fideliter, si omnia exemplaria illi adfuerunt quae ad manus nostras pervenerunt

Incipit:

• The place, persons and fensing of the court, cap. 1. First and formest, where court suld be halden, there aucht to compeir at ane certane place within the barronie (the whilk place is called 'the chemise') the baillie of the baronie, with sufficient power be letter and seale of the barron, with his clerkes, his serjand, and lawfull and sufficient soytours.

  (End:) The judged may persew at the Kings instance, albeit the defendar be quite, at the instance of the partie, caput 81. And it is to wit that the defendar may na wayes escaip. Bot gif it sa be that the partie followand cannot mak till him lawfull soyte ... forme

Explicit:

• as in default of formable soyte, nocht maid in dew maner and forme