Manuscripta juridica

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

Beginning on same page, after the end of Colvill's Practicks. Dated 6 Maii 1631. Headings are written in the margins

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No. of pages: Fol. 125v-138r

Incipit:

• [{i}first part's first chapter:{/i}] Of judgement, cap. 1. Definition of judgement. Judgement is ane examinatioun or disceptatioun of any contraversie, or ane lawfull act that is done in the place quair causses ar decydit. The quhilk consistis in thrie persons, videlicet in ane judge, ane persewer and ane defender. The substance of the same consistis in the same thrie persons. Of the quhilkis, if any be absent, thir is no iudgement.

  Parts of judgement.

  The substantiall and principall pairte of judgement is the sumonds, libell or petitioun, the aith callit 'iuramentum calumniae', litiscontestatioun, the conclusioun, and sentence in writt.

  And albeit the king may discharge sic solemnities as ar statute to be observit in iudgement introducit be the law positive, callit the law of man, sic as litiscontestatioun, the dilationis or dyetts assignit to give in articles or use probatioun, zit may he not discharge ony inducit be the law of nature, as the citatioun of Adam efter his offence, beand in Paradise, when he sould have bein condemnit, he was first callit [Bible:{i}Genesis 3.9{/i}].

  Judgements finishet 3 wayis.

  Judgement is finishit, declarit and made null, and als unlawfull, and that sundrie wayis.

  [{i}Further chapters of the first part:{/i}] Of actiones, ther divisiones and definitiones, cap. 2. Of interdictis or inhibitionis, cap. 3. Off cessioun or transferring the actioun, cap. 4. Of judges and ther office, cap. 5. Of exceptions agains the judge ordinar, cap. 6. Exceptions agains the judge delegat, cap. 7. Exceptions agains the judges arbitrators, cap. 8. Exceptions agains assessors, cap. 9.

  [{i}Incipit of the second part:{/i}] Of the very full or perfyt cognitioun and tryall. The 2. pairt of the Thesaur of Practick. Of the persewer or demander. Havand declarit quat is iudgement and of the sundrie kyndis ... Farder it may be exceptit agains the persewer ... Of the defender.

  [{i}Last chapters' headings:{/i}] Be inquisitioun. ... Be way of exceptioun. ... To proceid extraordinarlie. This extraordinar way is observit quhen the cryme is notour and manifest, sua that thair necessites(?) na accusatioun, inquisitioun, denunciatioun, nor zit exceptioun, nor na(?) witnes nor probatioun. For thair is na better prufe nor appeires be the manifestnes of the deid. The last maner of notorietie is quen it is sua evident to the sight of men

Explicit:

• that the contrair cannot be defendit

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

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