Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]







Ius proprium Scotiae - Leges burgorum

Incipit:

  • In the frist it is to se qwhat [and then:] is the rent of oure lorde

Explicit:

  • legem\ habet\ non\ necessitas\

Ius proprium Scotiae - Leges burgorum (in Scots).

Chapters are numbered 1-113, but in the margin there is a different numbering, indicating a rather different arrangement

No. of pages: Fol. 247r-254v

Rubric: Hic incipiunt Leges Burgorum Scotiae, factae apud Novum-Castrum super Tinam, per Davidem regem Scotorum illustrissimum [{i}Note in the margin:{/i} Ex antiquo codice in pergameno scripto fratris mei M. Wilhelmi Skene Commissarii Sancti Andreae -{i}thus the 'Bute' MS?{/i}]

Incipit:

  • De redditu domini regis. Caput 1. In the frist(!) it is to se qwhat is the rent of oure lorde the kyng in burgh, that is to say that ilke man sal gyfe till oure lorde the king in burgh for his burgage, the qwhilk is a rude of land, throw the yhere v. denarii.

    (End:) A seke burges may nocht analy, c. 113. Alswa it is statute that a burges lyand seke in bed, of the qwhylk sekenes it hapyn hym to dy, may not gyfe, sel, na wedset, na on maner analy ony part of his land fra hys rychtwyse ayre - but for werr [{i}= war{/i}?] (amystare?) and defaute ... legem

Explicit:

  • and poverte knawyn, quia necessitas non habet legem