Manuscripta juridica

Ordo iudiciorum Scotiae - details: Form of proces before the Lords , beginning with extracts from 'Minor practicks' by Thomas Hope of Craighall.

The extracts from Sir Thomas Hope's treatise are contained in pag. 204-206 and 207-212

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No. of pages: [{i}Interspersed in vol. 3, pag. 204-214:{/i}]

Incipit:

• Ther is ane generall that no sumonds can be callit before the Lords whill the first day of compeirance be bygane, except allenarly in receaveing of witnesses, whilk may be callit upon the first day of compeirance ... Item if the defender produce ane obligatione of cautione, and the cautione be rejected on the alleadgeance of insufficiencie, in this caise the Lords will assigne ane new dyet for finding better cautione (Vide sequelam hujus materiae ad litteram 'Sumonds').

  [{i}End of extracts from Hope's work:{/i}] committed be the persuar or any other violent deid quhilk stayed the productione. But such reductiones will not be sustained without verie great reasoneing.

  (Pag. 212-213) Nota, it is to be remembered that ther wes ane decreit of improbatione given at the instance of our soverane Lord his Advocat contra Mr. John Gordone persone of Crimont, brother german to James Gordaine of Laschemoir ... This actione of reductione in secunda instantia is verie highlie reasoned in presence of the Lords, and specially upon this poynt of subtilitie that the reasone wherof this decreit wes craved to be reduced wes because Mr. John Gordon hade ratified and approven the tack sett be Mr. Alexander Keith ... It was answered verie directlie that the Laird of Wrie could never be heard to reduce that decreit ... The Lords in this matter fand be interlocutor that they wold heare the parties reasone ... Thairefter it wes alleadgit be the said Mr. John Gordoune that they could never be heard to reduce the decreit ... This act of reductione of the decreit of improbatione wes dicydit in the mounths of November and December 1610 and January 1611.

  (Continued, pag. 213-214) In all thir processes of reductiones, nullities, improbatione and exhibitione of evidents wherin productione is craved with certeficatione, the partie that is called for to produce and exhibit ... speciallie be condescendit upon and speciallie provine.

  [{i}There follows an extract from Haddington's Practicks:{/i} Millar v. Ardoth, 1609/12/4].

  (Pag. 555-556) [{i}There follow lengthy notes about testaments, partly in Latin, interspersed with abstracts of decisions until 1631.{/i}].

  [{i}Text:{/i}] Est quaestio cujus civitatis mores sunt sequendi in ordinando testamento. Ego possideo bona in Gallia, Hispania, Italia, etc. volo ordinare testamentum et unum ex asse haeredem omnium bonorum scribere. Cujus enim mores observare oportet? Dicunt plerique doctores: bona esse dividenda pro regionibus, et de his secundum cujusque regionis jura disponendum. Unde sequeretur res absordissima ut quis decederet pro parte intestatus. Dicendum est: debere observare mores et leges patriae testatoris. Patriam autem intelligo domicilii, non originis. Vide Cujacii comentarium, lex 9, ff. de justitia et jure [D.1.1.9]