Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]







Institutions of the law of Scotland

Author(s):

  • James Dalrymple later 1st Viscount Stair

Incipit:

  • Jurisprudence is the knowledge [and then:] of rights

Explicit:

  • Manderstoune\ contra\ Donugwel\

Institutions of the law of Scotland .

No author mentioned, and no title. Very neatly written by only one scribe, on one type of paper only. Decorated initials at the beginning of each title

Author(s):

  • James Dalrymple later 1st Viscount Stair

No. of pages: Pag. 1-512

Incipit:

  • Titulus primus. Comone principles of Juris-Prudence [{i}there follows a list of 26 headings of paragraphs in the first title{/i}]. Jurisprudence is the knowledge of rights, as justice is

Explicit:

  • Titulus 31. Vitious intromission. ... Vitious intromission in England inferrs only restitutione ... Nicols, de hered., 26 Julii [{i}year omitted{/i}], Lord Donugwel[!] contra Manderstoune

Colophon: Finis. Stands the end.

[{i}Here the present copy, written in 1668 at the latest, lacks the reference to the decision of 1666/7/10 which the younger manuscripts contain. It thus appears that this version of the text was published by Stair before that date{/i}]