Manuscripta juridica

Ordo iudiciorum Scotiae - Treatise 'Judgment is ane examinatioun' ("Thesaur of practique") .

Related to (and probably copied from) Adv.MS.24.1.11. I suspect that the work was translated from a Latin work of the European continent, probably written in France, and titled 'Summa practicae', or 'Thesaurus Practicae', or similar title. This is particularly suggested by a text passage from part 5 chapter 3: '... bot ther may not (be) appeal from the sentence of the prince, the pope or emperor, nor yet fra the senat, presentlie callit the parliament ...'. The character of the first two parts reminds me of a treatise attributed to Pope Innocent IV, {i}De exceptionibus{/i}, or of a work with similar title by Bagarottus, or by Nepos de Montealbano, {i}Libellus fugitivus{/i}. Yet, it might also be a translation of excerpts from a larger work, for instance from Johannes Petrus de Ferrariis, '{i}Practica Papiensis{/i}', or '{i}Practica aurea{/i}' by Petrus Jacobi de Aureliaco

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No. of pages: Fol. 167r-181v

Rubric: [{i}Title of first part:{/i}] The first pairt of the same [{i}sic! Probably garbled from the word{/i}'Soume' = Summa] in practiqu, 6 Maii 1631

Incipit:

• [{i}first chapter:{/i}] Of judgment, cap. 1. Judgment is ane examinatioun or disceptatioun of any controversie, or ane laufull act that is done in the place quhair causses are decydit. The quhilk consists in thrie persones, videlicet in ane judge and persewar and ane defender. The substance of the same consists in the same thrie persones. Of the quhilk, if any be absent, ther is no judgment.

  [{i}Chapter headings of first part:{/i}] Of judgment, cap. 1. Of actiones, ther divisiouns and definitiouns, cap. 2. Of interdictis or inhibitiounes, cap. 3. Of cessioun or transferring the actioun, (cap. 4). Of judges and ther office, (cap. 5). Of exceptionis agains the judge ordinar, cap. 6. Exceptionis againes the judge deligat, cap. 7. Exceptiones agains the judges arbitrators, cap. 8. The persones quhilk may not compromitt, (cap. 9). (Exceptionis) to be proponit agains the compromitt, (cap. 10). Exceptiones agains assessors, (cap. 11). Of the (v)erie full or perfyt cognitioun and tryall, of the full and sufficient tryall and of the summar and breif tryall, (cap. 12).

  The 2 pairt of the Theasur [{i}sic!{/i}] of practiqu [{i}obviously garbled from Latin 'Thesaurus{/i}', {i} half converted into the word 'Treasure{/i}'].

  [{i}Chapter headings of second part:{/i}] Of the persewar or demander, (cap. 2.1). [{i}Incipit:{/i}] Fardar it may be exceptit agains the persewar ... Of the defendar, (cap. 2.2). The persones that cannot be persewit, (cap. 2.3). Of the procurator, (cap. 2.4). Exceptiones agains procurators, (cap. 2.5). Of the procurator syndiqu, of the oeconomus, of the actor, of the orphanotrophe and vice master or undermaster, (cap. 2.6). Of the tutor, (cap. 2.7). Agans the tutor testamentar, (cap. 2.8). Agains the tutor laufull, (cap. 2.9). Agains the tutor dative, (cap. 2.10). Agains the tutor extraordinar, (cap. 2.11). Of curators, (cap. 2.12). Of the advocatt, (cap. 2.13). Exceptiones agains the advocat, (cap. 2.14). Of the executor or serjand, (cap. 2.15).

  3 part of the Treasure off practike.

  [{i}Chapter headings of third part:{/i}] The sumonds or citatione, i. [{i}= cap. 3.1{/i}]. Exceptione agains the sumonds. Of the judge competent or incompetent, cap. 2 [{i}= cap. 3.2{/i}]. Of the abscence or contumacie, (cap. 3.3). Of the petitioun or lybell, (cap. 3.4). Of delayes of dilatiouns, (cap. 3.5). Of feriot and vacance, (cap. 3.6). Renunciatioun of the judge, (cap. 3.7). Exceptiouns, (cap. 3.8).

  The 4 pairt of the Thesair[!] of practik.

  [{i}Chapter headings of fourth part:{/i}] Of litiscontestatioun, (cap. 4.1). Articles or positiouns, (cap. 4.2). Of confessioun, (cap. 4.3). Of preives and probatione, (cap. 4.4). Of witnesses, (cap. 4.5). Of the productioun of wrytes, instruments and objectiouns agains them, cap. 6 [{i}= cap. 4.6{/i}]. Of presumptiouns, cap. 7 [{i}= cap. 4.7{/i}]. Of the svearing and ofering of ane aith, cap. 8 [{i}= cap. 4.8{/i}]. Of that quhilk the advocats sould advyse and observe and siklyk the judge he(!) have and(!) hard them, (cap. 4.9). The priviledge of the law quhilk may be renuncit or not in publik instruments, (cap. 4.10). Priviledges quhilk may not be renuncit, (cap. 4.11).

  The fyft pairt of the Thesur[!] of practik.

  [{i}Chapter headings of fifth part:{/i}] Of pronuncing of the sentence or decreit, (cap. 5.1). Of the executione of the sentence, (cap. 5.2). Appellatioun, (cap. 5.3). Of restitution in integrum, (cap. 5.4). Of condemning in expensses, (cap. 5.5). The maner to proceid in criminall actiouns, (cap. 5.6). Exceptiouns agains the accuser, (cap. 5.7). Be denunciatioun, (cap. 5.8). Be inquisitioun, (cap. 5.9). Be way of exceptioun, (cap. 5.10). To proceid extraordinarlie, (cap. 5.11)

Explicit:

• The last maner of notoritie is quhen it is sua evident to the sight of men that the contrair cannot be defendit

Colophon: Finem huic libro imposui 11. die Maii 1631 sub horam sextam matutinam. Fenos [{i}obviously garbled from misread Greek letters{/i} 'Telos']