Manuscripta juridica

Ordo iudiciorum Scotiae - Treatise 'In all pleyes thair must be thrie persounis' (Form of process, different from the one printed in 1609) .

The scribe mentions the year 1652 - but this is an obvious accidental slip of pen. The work is divided into 20 chapters, but for many of them the scribe did not copy the chapter heading. Each chapter contains a number of short propositions of law. These propositions are numbered. The text is much shorter than the treatise published by Skene in 1609, and it is differently arranged

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No. of pages: Fol. 43r-47v

Rubric: Ane short forme of proces

Incipit:

• (1) In all pleyes thair most be thrie persounes: the judge, actor (the persewer), and reus (the defender). (2) All criminall actiouns sould be determined befor the Generall Justice be ane inquisitione of assyse of certaine loyall men quho best knawis the truth of the matter. (3) Some causes are ecclesiasticall and perteines to kirkmen. (4) All civill actiouns that hes no fidem or juramenti interpositionem ar civill and perteines (nocht [{i}omitted{/i}]) to the kirk. (5) Some actionis ar civill concerning landis, debts and pecuniall penalties, and thes belongis to shereffis, lords, barronis and baillies and to the Lords of Sessioun a(nen?)t thair priviledge from the first institutioun be James 5 anno 1652 [{i}sic!{/i}] and confirmit be the pope 1534 and ratifiet be James 6, Parliament 18 cap. 189.

  [{i}Further chapter headings, if present:{/i}] 2 Executioun of summondis. 6 Of litis contestatioun. 7 Of probatioun. 8 Oath de calumnia. 9 Of the aith of veritie. 10 De iuramento in litem. 12 Probatioun be witnessis. 13 Circumductioun of the terme of probatioun. 14 Of the sentence. 15 Excecutioun of the sentence. 16 Of comprysing. 17 Suspensioun of decreites. 18 Reductioun of decreits. 19 Of criminall actionis. 20 Of causes pertaining to the schereffs