Manuscripta juridica

Decisiones curiae supremae Scotiae - Practicks (digest of decisions), systematic , drawn from Alexander Gibson Lord Durie or Peter Wedderburn Lord Gosford.

This compend is preserved in four MSS which disagree about the identity of the re-arranger, and also about the original collector of the practicks.

Arranged under 72 subject headings. I cannot see any logical or other order in the sequence of headings. No mention of parties' names, no dates. Mungo P. Brown states in his index to Morison's {i}Dictionary of Decisions{/i} that Sir Peter Wedderburn Lord Gosford collected Practicks from 1668 to 1677. The Library's Folio Catalogue and Summary Catalogue describe the present MS under the mistaken shelfmark Adv.MS.24.1.3 and ascribe its production to the year 1669 - wrongly

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Author(s): Thomas Nicolson of Carnock(?); John Nisbet Lord Dirleton(?)

No. of pages: Pag. 1-111

Rubric: Ane abridgment of those practiques collected by that famous jurisconsult Sir P. W., epitomized by that learned lawier Sir Thomas Nicolsone of Carnock 1669 [{i}Addition by another hand:{/i}] with Sir Thomas Wallace off Craigies Collectiones and observationes following to thame

Incipit:

• [{i}first itle:{/i}] Titulus primus. Minors and there tutors and curators. A minor cannot reduce ane dispositione of his lands made in his minoritie ex hoc capite that it wants the decreit of a judge finding the alienatione.

  (Titulus 72:) Parents and children. The father man call for the exhibitione and deliverie of bands of provisione made to his children and put in a freinds hands to be keeped to their use, and may alter or cancell the same at his pleasure ... liquid

Explicit:

• for the entertainement of the daughters, tho it wes not liquid. Finis